Irving Layton Quotes
If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.Irving Layton
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
Fatty Arbuckle -
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder -
I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
Maika Monroe -
People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
Abraham Lincoln
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz -
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
T. D. Jakes -
Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
Gail Porter -
I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
Gary Numan -
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
Adam McKay -
I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
Mads Mikkelsen
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
Victoria Principal -
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
Karolina Kurkova -
As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
Victoria Osteen -
If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
Rajneesh -
The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
Sadaharu Oh
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Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches.
David Hewson -
When you get in a band, you never consider the day it'll all just stop.
Stephen Morris New Order -
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
James Broughton -
Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
Austin Clarke -
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
Irving Layton