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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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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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I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.
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The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing. Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces?
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With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.
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First of all, my father inspired me...he is a great social activist and women's rights activist...he spoke out. And he spoke for women's rights...that hard situation, he inspired me, because he spoke. And that's what I learned from him.
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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.
