Anne Royall Quotes
“Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.”
Anne Royall
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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
Walt Mossberg
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Nathalie Sarraute
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
Adam Baldwin
I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
Harold Pinter
I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
Victoria Principal
I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
Cara Delevingne
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
Jack White
The White Stripes
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
P. J. O'Rourke
I collect movies, I still buy records constantly. I collect musical instruments and most of my time I spend making music, it's pretty much what I do 90% of the time I'm home. Aside from just normal stuff, I walk the dog, I hang out with my girlfriend, get dinner. Pretty mellow stuff.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
Alan Cumming
I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.
James Brown
I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
Oscar Wilde
By taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.
Marion Milner
We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.
Kanan Makiya
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts.
As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.
Hippocrates
