William Topaz McGonagall Quotes
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Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice
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The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.
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My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I'm never done tweaking a book until the production department has to rip it from my hands!
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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.
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Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
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When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
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Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".
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If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.
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I look like Walt Disney just threw up.
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Well, I must say that the first man who threw peas at me was a publican .
