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.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen -
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?
Lord Byron -
Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.
Honore de Balzac -
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice
Rumi -
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.
Tom Lehrer -
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!
Kresley Cole
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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.
Alan Dundes -
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
Leon Trotsky -
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
Charles Dickens -
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.
Anthony Trollope -
I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.
Judy Holliday -
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.
Darryl Dawkins
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Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
John Locke Nazareth -
Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".
Connie Brockway -
When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.
Alexander Gordon Smith -
Well, I must say that the first man who threw peas at me was a publican .
William Topaz McGonagall