Edith Hall Quotes

Odysseus is one of antiquity’s few exclusively heterosexual heroes.

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• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Listen
  • News

• Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • School
  • History
  • High

• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Dead

• I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Think
  • Short
  • Personal

• The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Great
  • You
  • Know

• At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Career
  • House
  • Words

• Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Just
  • Run
  • West

• Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.

  

  John Buchan
  • Loyalty

• I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Life
  • Time
  • First Time

• The exact scope of it, with respect to the beginning of life and the end of life, those are issues that are coming before the court in both respects, and I don't think that I should go further.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Beginning

• There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Discipline
  • Achieve
  • Adversity

• News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Chicago
  • News
  • Statement

• I feel for all the parents whose babies just keep waking up for years. My heart and back go out to you guys! You are my heroes, and I am not fit to walk in your shoes!

  

  Constance Marie
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Parents

• Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

  

  Plato
  • Heroes
  • Storytelling
  • Leisure

• All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Heroes

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• What you want to know is... does it shorten your life? You can do those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive to do and no one's been really doing them.

  

  Bruce Ames
  • Life
  • Question
  • Mice

• Odysseus is one of antiquity’s few exclusively heterosexual heroes.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Heroes
  • Heterosexual
  • Odysseus