Celia Rees Quotes
Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
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I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.
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I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.
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Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water.'
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
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He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head.
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Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.
