William Shenstone Quotes
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.William Shenstone
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
Patricia Clarkson -
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis -
My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
Wayne Dyer -
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
Victoria Pratt -
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
Jack Kevorkian
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler -
Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
Candice Olson -
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro -
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Death is the beginning of something.
Edith Piaf -
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Ferdinand Foch
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor -
I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
Faith Hill -
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
Karl Liebknecht -
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
Gary Hamel -
To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
Viktor Orban -
I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
Taylor Phinney
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Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.
Diplo -
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
Erik Larson -
I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.
Lauren Bowles -
It takes a while to establish a character. Richard Boone once told me he didn't really get the character in 'Have Gun - Will Travel' until the 16th show. You just plant a seed, water it, let the sun shine on it, and hope it blooms.
Peter Graves -
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
William Shenstone