Samuel Hoffenstein Quotes
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?Samuel Hoffenstein
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
Larry Wilmore -
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
Salman Rushdie -
My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
Daniel Cormier -
I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.
Iman -
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
Christina Aguilera -
Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.
Drew Holcomb
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A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.
Henry Paulson -
It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
J. C. Snead -
You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...
Anthony Quinn -
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
Oscar Wilde -
You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
Oscar Wilde
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
Napoleon Hill -
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
Sebastian Bach -
French women don't eat Wonder Bread.
Mireille Guiliano -
I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.
Cate Marvin -
Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?
Rue McClanahan