Winifred Holtby Quotes
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.Winifred Holtby
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
Gareth Gates -
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
Sam Donaldson -
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria -
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu -
I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
Zack Greinke -
Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
Pat Summitt
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Florence Nightingale -
My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
Lamar Odom -
War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
Victor Davis Hanson -
For a Tamil debut, I wanted to make sure the script is the right one. We are hopeful 'Bramhotsavam' will be that film.
Mahesh Babu -
I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.
Rachel Nichols -
The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
Candice Patton
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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
Vera Wang -
I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
Gabby Douglas -
By a route obscure and lonely,Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule - From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE - out of TIME.
Edgar Allan Poe -
On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.
China Anne McClain -
Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.
Elizabeth Berg
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The fact I am the most expensive player is not a burden.
Neymar -
Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
Nana Mouskouri -
Acting is a youthful profession.
Kirk Douglas -
It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.
Lewis Thomas -
I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
Uday Kiran -
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.
Winifred Holtby