William Jenkyn Quotes
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'
Karen Gillan -
Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
Gail Simmons -
I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
Walter Isaacson -
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu -
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
Olympia Snowe
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
Taylor Swift -
It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
Cal Hubbard -
In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship – a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.
Bahman Ghobadi -
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
Baz Luhrmann
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
Gary Bettman -
The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
Edmund Morgan -
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
Ram Dass -
I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.
Carla Gugino -
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Barbara Sher
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I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian actress - because my son was completely crazy about 'Star Wars.'
Lindsay Duncan -
All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Ivo Andric -
The best way never to fall is ever to fear.
William Jenkyn