Nathanael Emmons Quotes
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
Carl Hiaasen -
If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
Vikram Chatwal -
I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
Yves Behar -
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence Nightingale -
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
Otto Hermann Kahn
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
Irvine Welsh -
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
Yann Martel -
If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.
Carine Roitfeld -
Artists need to express.
Bebe Neuwirth -
I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
Parker Posey -
I find that life is easier when it is just a blurWith no details to confuse who or what or where I wasSo when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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Everything must belong somewhere.I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.
Laeta Kalogridis -
I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans. It's very difficult for me to say, 'Hey, I can give up my paycheck,' because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn't make it possible for me.
Linda Sanchez -
I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.
Lois Capps -
It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
Jimmy Carr -
Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.
Kate Crawford
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As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.
Brock Osweiler -
Full of years, Sir Frank's body died. The diphtheria which carried him off caused him as much suffering as it would have done an ordinary man; dying was not eased by his unique gift. He slid out into the long darkness - but his consciousness continued unabated in eight other bodies.
Brian Aldiss -
By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!"
Tony Evans -
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Nathanael Emmons