J. L. Austin Quotes
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
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I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.
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The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster homosexuality whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
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A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
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The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.
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However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.
