Elizabeth Wordsworth Quotes
It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.Elizabeth Wordsworth
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Irwin Shaw -
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman -
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
Jackie Robinson -
It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale -
With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
Irvin D. Yalom -
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. William Fulbright -
No man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson -
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
Camille Paglia -
When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
Walter Dean Myers
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They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.
Vince Lombardi -
If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
Pat Benatar -
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant -
Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
Jack McDevitt -
In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and merges in theology, or meddles with external politics, so also does it mar its proper form when it attempts to mimic the rigorous method of mathematics.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don’t realize it. It’s very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. As for radio, I had a wonderful teacher. I was hugely lucky. I didn’t want to play a robot, but the situation was an object lesson in fate taking over.
Anthony Daniels
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I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.
William Shakespeare -
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
Kara Swisher -
It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
Elizabeth Wordsworth