Raymond Chandler Quotes
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Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.
P. J. Plauger -
I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.
Rachel Carson -
Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.
Eliot Spitzer -
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
Thomas A. Edison -
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise Pascal -
Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
Grace Slick Starship
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.
Spider Robinson -
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Steven Levitt -
All I am is what I'm going after.
Al Pacino -
To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.
Angelina Jolie
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I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.
Richard Aldington -
As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food ingredients, with its high-speed, blunt assault on our brains, then fat is the opiate, a smooth operator whose effects are less obvious but no less powerful.
Michael Moss -
Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!
Katharine Hepburn -
Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.
Thomas Hood -
I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
Raymond Chandler