Ellen Kushner Quotes
Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!Ellen Kushner
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke -
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus -
For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
Adam McKay -
Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
I am confounded by the failure of this rule to meet either the spirit or letter of the law, ... It is clearly delinquent in protecting all Americans equally from the hazards of mercury.
Olympia Snowe -
You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
Walter Johnson
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Kareena Kapoor is my lucky charm
Akshay Kumar -
It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
Baden Powell -
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
W. H. Auden -
I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible.
Bruno Tonioli -
I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
Paul Auster -
You're worth what you're worth
Peter Schiff
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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
Ernest Hemingway -
Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.
William Cowper -
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
Thomas A. Edison -
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.
Virginia Woolf -
Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions.
Vladimir Putin -
For if God does not for a moment tire of giving us good things, how can we tire of thanking Him for these good things?
Nikolaj Velimirovic
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden -
In the spirit of tolerance, you should allow us to execute homosexuals.
David Bahati -
Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!
Ellen Kushner