Alfred Rupert Hall Quotes
The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.
Alfred Rupert Hall
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I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.
Ralph Lauren
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. Naipaul
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
H. L. Mencken
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Fear is the enemy of logic.
Frank Sinatra
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan Perlis
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I pray the gods will give me some reliefAnd end this weary job. One long full yearI've been lying here, on this rooftop,The palace of the sons of Atreus,Resting on my arms, just like a dog.I've come to know the night sky, every star,The powers we see glittering in the sky,Bringing winter and summer to us all,As the constellations rise and sink.
Aeschylus
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But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
Adam Smith
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There could be no negotiation between people who thought that cocaine was a vaguely naughty and salacious drug and the intravenous addict who know that it was an opportunity to experience the arctic landscape of pure terror.
Edward St Aubyn
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Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.
Alfred Noyes
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I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites on each book.
Kimberly Willis Holt
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The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.
Bonnie Hunt
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I am actually a very gentle person.
Charlie Trotter