Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
Barton Gellman -
I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
Dakota Fanning -
The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman -
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
Walter Kirn -
Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
Larry King -
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. Kalyanaraman -
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. Hinton -
It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
Dalton McGuinty -
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
Kate Bush
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
La India -
I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
Barbara Palvin -
I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
Kate Grenville -
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
Haley Bennett -
My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
Lamar Odom
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In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.
Said Nursi -
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
James Howell -
The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say 'Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles.'
Charles Evans Hughes -
I think that's important - that transgender individuals are just like everyone else. We have our interests, our hobbies, our things we like to do. And people have to understand that.
Jazz Jennings -
It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
Yannick Noah -
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay