Ernest K. Gann Quotes
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
Ernest K. Gann
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley
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The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
Dana Snyder
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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
Dan Brown
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
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I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
Dakota Johnson
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But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.
Homer
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It is easier to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
George Eliot
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
A. N. Wilson
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
William Hazlitt
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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
Ernest K. Gann
