Christina Stead Quotes
Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.
Christina Stead
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
Sam Levenson
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Mallory Ortberg
A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.
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Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.
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Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
Jade Jones
All you can do is the best you can do.
Lloyd Blankfein
Until I'm actually stood on the set doing the job, I always keep my options open.
Katherine Kelly
I love Forever 21. A friend of mine introduced it to me when I was in New York. I was borrowing a dress and said, 'Where's that from?' and she said, 'Oh, it's Forever 21,' and I said, 'What, I've never heard of that!' and she said, 'Oh it's this American brand,' and I thought, 'Why doesn't England have that; why doesn't Europe have one?'
Amber Le Bon
The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.
George Will
I've kept going to therapy to find out why my perspective is so skewered and why I'm filled with rage. It's so I can live in this world alongside these other people who seem to be what is desired and what the world wants.
John Grant
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
John Wilmot
No small hole can so modify the convergence of rays of light as to prevent, at a long distance, the transmission of the true form of the luminous body causing them.
Leonardo da Vinci
Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.
Christina Stead
