Elizabeth Bear Quotes
The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.
Elizabeth Bear
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
Rachel Maddow
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
Bebe Rexha
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
Dan Aykroyd
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
Ingrid Bergman
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
Ted Dekker
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman
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Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
Rafael Nadal
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I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
W. C. Fields
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'Alec is beautiful,' said Jill, bending down to kiss him.'Like a mushroom cloud!' scoffed Balkister.
Kage Baker
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.
Karen Blixen
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Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.
W. H. Auden
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Whatever's lost, it first was won; We will not struggle nor impugn. Perhaps the cup was broken here, That Heaven's new wine might show more clear. I praise Thee while my days go on.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep-But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;Well, you know, there's no escape.That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.
Ani DiFranco
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All this 'King' stuff is pure bullshit. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like anyone else. I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Clark Gable
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My husband plunged into work on a speech and I went off to work on an article. Midnight came and bed for all, and all that was said was 'good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as I pass through a door to the other, like encountering a neighbor in the hallway going into the apartment next to one’s own. In the recording studio, I would often lie down to nap and wake up with harmony parts fully formed in my mind, ready to be recorded. I think of music as dreaming in sound.
Linda Ronstadt
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Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.
Barry Lane
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Bottom line is, you're not going to win the war against terrorism without the help of Muslims... as well as Hindus and a lot of other groups. That's a no-brainer. Many attacks have been thwarted because of information coming from people of different faiths.
Andre Carson
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I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.
Jane Austen
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann Hesse
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The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.
Elizabeth Bear
