Christopher Logue Quotes
Picture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 men Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.Christopher Logue
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith -
I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
Ram Charan -
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
Dan Marino -
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent -
Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
Barry Sternlicht -
When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
Gail Collins
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai -
I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
Bart Stupak -
You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
Hamish Bowles -
But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
Daniel Dennett -
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
Samuel Johnson
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Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.
Sallust -
She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.
P. G. Wodehouse -
In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.
Bertrand Russell -
Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
Logic -
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
Jeanette Winterson
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The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
Anthony Holden -
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
T. D. Jakes -
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. Rockefeller -
My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.
Bethenny Frankel -
Picture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 men Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.
Christopher Logue