Eric Knight Quotes

Two second-place finishes in this field showed that he's for real. Glenn really proved himself today.

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• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Two

• As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • World
  • Happy
  • Man

• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Ceiling
  • Trigger

• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Stand

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Office

• The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Find
  • Interest
  • Mystery

• You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Long
  • Learn

• I want to be treated like a musician.

  

  Halsey
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musician

• It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Better

• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Expression
  • Simplicity

• Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Angry

• 'Gold,' says the Consul, knowing that this is the only syllable that has held its power over the ages.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Power
  • Gold

• I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Important

• Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • May
  • Fire

• Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Work

• No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Change
  • Stand

• Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Gold
  • Venture
  • FDR

• I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

  

  Per Petterson
  • People
  • Family
  • Political

• Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.

  

  Peter Mayhew
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Hair

• Two second-place finishes in this field showed that he's for real. Glenn really proved himself today.

  

  Eric Knight
  • Real
  • Proved
  • Finishes