Edmund Gosse Quotes
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
Imran Amed -
I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
Tamra Davis -
For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
Randy West -
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
Patrick deWitt -
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Isaac Barrow -
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
Ian Fleming -
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
Harry Anderson -
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
Vernon A. Walters -
Pink is like the one color I say I hate, and yet somehow I end up wearing it. Like, Michael Kors sent me a pink dress, and I'm like: 'So beautiful!' And I'm wearing it telling him 'I hate pink, why am I wearing this? It's really nice though.'
Kate Mara -
I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.
Pablo Neruda -
Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.
Vandana Shiva
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
Aristotle -
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.
Viswanathan Anand -
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
George Stoneman -
So you're lost, uh? Happens a lot out here. You walk around for days, seeing things, losing your bearings, crying out for God, But He can't hear you. You can scream and scream but nobody'll ever hear you.
Craig Davidson -
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.
Thomas Hobbes -
I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.
Jennifer Garner