Edith M. Thomas Quotes
The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And vines are running fire along the ground.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
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Moi ! moi qui me suis dit mage ou ange, dispensé de toute morale, je suis rendu au sol.
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It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
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Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it's about expression. It's so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play.
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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
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There was always pressure to make a Scientologist out of the people you were working with.
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Hawaii was so integral to my journey. I was just there at the right time.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.
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The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And vines are running fire along the ground.
