Raymond Chandler Quotes
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
Ian Anthony Dale -
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman -
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
Larry Wall -
My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
Tamsin Egerton -
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
E. W. Howe
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson -
I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
Iman -
Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
Umberto Eco -
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter -
I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
Damien Rice -
We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.
Zack Wamp
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I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
Rabindranath Tagore -
We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.
E. O. Wilson -
The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.
Bill Budge -
The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.
Jaye Davidson -
Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.
Chris Riddell
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Hanif Kureishi -
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved.
D. B. Weiss -
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.
Walt Whitman -
The streets were dark with something more then night.
Raymond Chandler