Caroline Norton (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton) Quotes
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What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
Patrick Marber -
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
Leonard Peikoff -
... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.
Angelina Jolie -
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
Umberto Eco -
Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."
Barack Obama -
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
Oscar Wilde
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Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.
Dalai Lama -
There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.
Octavius Winslow -
In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.
Tony Kushner -
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
William Cowper -
I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
William Inge -
I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
Nathan Lowell
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
Terence McKenna -
If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.
Kevin Spacey -
Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.
Will Wright -
They serve God well, who serve his creatures.
Caroline Norton