Washington Irving Quotes
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving
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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
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
Rami Malek
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
Safra A. Catz
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Not a flower
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,
Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires
Their balmy odors, and imparts their hues,
And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes
In grains as countless as the seaside sands,
The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth
Happy who walks with him!
William Cowper
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Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
Confucius
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The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
Chris Riddell
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When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.
Kathrine Switzer
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
Harold Pinter
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving
