Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.Tobias Smollett
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
Iman -
I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
Jaan Tallinn -
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
Rachel Bloom -
I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
Hamza Yusuf -
I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
Kangana Ranaut -
It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
Usain Bolt -
I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
Tana French -
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
Oscar Wilde -
There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
Ian Lustick -
Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
Carly Fiorina -
Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.
Orson Scott Card
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Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
Edgar Degas -
As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith -
… when was a woman ever witty without being bitter?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.
Mavis Staples -
I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.
Mark Ronson -
There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
Charles R. Swindoll
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The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. It is an intelligence so great that just by observing natural phenomena I come to the conclusion that a Creator exists.
Carlo Rubbia -
There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.
Elise Andrew -
Chipotles to me are a one-of-a-kind pepper because they're smoked jalapenos, so they're fiery and they're smoky. It's good to use chipotles in salsas or soups or condiments - that works really well. To me, they always really pick up anything you put them in.
Bobby Flay -
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman -
I promise you, the gym has taken away so much of my stress. It has helped calm me down.
Khloe Kardashian -
Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.
Tobias Smollett