William Morley Punshon Quotes
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.
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You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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There is no 'off' being John Cena: it's always on. In a way, I think that has helped me, because over the years I have been able to be humble. I have been able to be humiliated in front of the WWE universe in a good way.
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Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding river. More often than not, you can only see to the next bend, and only when you reach that next turn can you see more.
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love is a sharing of a mutual delusion.
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There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
