Arthur Morrison Quotes
They firmly believe it to be the sole function of art to minister to their personal comfort — as upholstery does.Arthur Morrison
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
Daniel Cormier -
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
Sam Crawford -
I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
Rae Carson -
I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
Yann Martel -
I have no political aspirations. That's it.
Kapil Dev
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Walter Annenberg -
I don't like to look typical.
Adam Lambert -
Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
Valerie Bertinelli -
If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
Nancy Gibbs -
I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'
Adam DeVine
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It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.
Zhou Yongkang -
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West -
I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.
Mahatma Gandhi -
He Quoyle did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.
Annie Proulx -
I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
Emily Mortimer
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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
Nelson Mandela -
Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death.
Melissa de la Cruz -
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
William Pitt -
They firmly believe it to be the sole function of art to minister to their personal comfort — as upholstery does.
Arthur Morrison