Edward Mayhew Quotes
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.Edward Mayhew
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
Eddie Redmayne -
I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
Felicity Jones -
I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
Gabourey Sidibe -
I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
Mackenzie Rosman -
I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
Olafur Eliasson -
I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.
Dani Shapiro
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If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.
Kate Reardon -
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
Aaron Allston -
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
Carla Bley -
I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
Octavia Spencer -
When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.
Sam Wyly
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I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.
Gaspard Ulliel -
I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.
Andy Griffith -
The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
Marge Piercy -
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher -
You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.
Sandra Bullock
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It's like killing each other is the only thing we know how to do.
Faith Erin Hicks -
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
Harlan Coben -
I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.
Barney Greenway Benediction -
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.
Edward Mayhew