Edwin Lefevre Quotes
In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.Edwin Lefevre
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
Sam Mendes -
I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.
Parker Posey -
It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.
James Corden -
I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
Frida Lyngstad -
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
Mark Oliphant -
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
John von Neumann
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
Karl Ove Knausgard -
Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?
Alice James -
I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya
Nalini Singh -
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri -
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
William Shakespeare
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A good sketch is better than a long speech.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
Jane Austen -
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
Ivan Turgenev -
Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own toward a solution, I prefer that much more than if the book fills me with the answers, gives them to me directly.
Sergio Leone -
I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
John Travolta -
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
Bart Stupak
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One musical that deeply influenced me - and continues to do so - is the 1997 ABC TV movie of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella,' starring Brandy, with Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother and Whoopi Goldberg as the prince's mom.
Janet Mock -
A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Willis R. Whitney -
In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.
Edwin Lefevre