Nigel Calder Quotes
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.Nigel Calder
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
J. G. Ballard -
People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
Zong Qinghou -
After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
Lara Spencer -
Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
Victoria Justice -
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben -
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
Ramana Maharshi
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
Eddie Marsan -
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
Carlos Fuentes -
I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
Danica McKellar -
The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
Gary Gygax -
I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.
L. Ron Hubbard -
A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
Warren Farrell
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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
Leo Tolstoy -
I regard religion as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Bertrand Russell -
Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?
Alex Berenson -
Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.
Luke Evans -
If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing.
Caroline Leavitt -
As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
Ben Katchor
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Advertisers like shows that viewers like to watch live.
Channing Dungey -
In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.
Gary Gach -
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
J. B. Priestley -
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack -
If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
William Barclay -
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
Nigel Calder