Flannery O'Connor Quotes
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.Flannery O'Connor
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
Owen Paterson -
I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
Harlan Coben -
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
Warren Zevon -
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot -
I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
Aaron Sorkin -
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Irene Rosenfeld
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
Frances Wright -
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo -
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
Adam Jones -
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede -
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
Jack Dangermond -
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
Zig Ziglar -
Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
Karl Malone -
I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
Taya Kyle -
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
L. Neil Smith
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I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
Saif Ali Khan -
I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.
Brett Favre -
I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.
Corey Haim -
I was only 5'10'' until I was a senior in high school.
Charles Barkley -
I will tell my best friends who I'm attracted to, but I'm not going to talk about it in a newspaper... It has nothing to do with my work.
Alia Bhatt -
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.
Flannery O'Connor