Alan Sillitoe Quotes
It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
Alan Sillitoe
Quotes to Explore
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
Larry Brown
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
Paris Hilton
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
Edmond About
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Owen D. Young
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
Dalai Lama
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
Taylor Sheridan
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
W. G. Sebald
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
Ted Deutch
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I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
Sam Neill
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
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When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
J. D. Salinger
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One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.
Alice Oswald
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And what do I want people to get from the music? Whatever they want. Whatever you like. Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.
Jeff Buckley
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The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
Derek Jeter
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
Alan Sillitoe
