Rex Stout Quotes
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
Rex Stout
Quotes to Explore
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
Victoria Azarenka
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Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'
Larry Hogan
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
Naveen Jain
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Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.
Lea Thompson
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We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
John Lahr
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Picture by picture, these criminals are being identified and arrested, and we will not let any phony concerns about human rights get in the way of the publication of these pictures and the arrest of these individuals.
David Cameron
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A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.
W. G. Sebald
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
Christina Aguilera
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Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.
Rachel Caine
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Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.
Rachel Caine
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That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
Anita Loos
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Music, the knife without a hilt.
Dorothy Dunnett
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So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you're at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You're going to be busy, but never forget family and friends.
Daniel Goldin
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To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
Harvey Fierstein
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My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.
Judy Davis
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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
Rex Stout
