Niels Diffrient Quotes
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.Niels Diffrient
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Octavio Paz -
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. Applegate -
I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
Abbie Cornish -
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
Lactantius -
I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
Bas Rutten -
I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.
Zach Woodlee
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I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.
Lara Stone -
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
Walter Dean Myers -
I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
Jack Nicholson -
Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
S. Jay Olshansky -
'Bake Off' is one of my favourite programmes, so I was genuinely a little bit shocked and very excited when I was asked to take part.
Zoe Sugg -
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
Harlan Stone
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I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
Oprah Winfrey -
I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.
Marge Piercy -
Fortune favours the bold.
Aristotle -
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
Plato -
Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.
Said Musa -
I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
Jack McDevitt
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I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's.
Dick Vitale -
If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?
Sarah Palin -
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
Niels Diffrient