Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Charles Simic
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Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.
David Lowery
Camper Van Beethoven
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Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.
Dierks Bentley
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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.
John Milton
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
Petrarch
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I have always tried to sense the mood of the people, their needs, their attitude toward ways to solve problems, their priorities. That's mainly what I go by. And I think that's the most important thing in any person's work, in the work that the people of Russia entrusted in me.
Vladimir Putin
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It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.
John Motson
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When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.
Sofia Vergara
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
Damon Galgut
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Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.
Dev Anand
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. Forster
