Katharine Tynan Quotes
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Lance Armstrong -
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones -
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
Karl Rove -
For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg -
The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
Randy Falco
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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
Vince Cable -
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
Barton Gellman -
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
Karl Marx -
Twenty kilometers. At an average speed of 120 klicks per hour, we should cover the distance in ten minutes. Ten freezing, adrenaline-pumping, gorge-rising, terror-beating-against-the-ribs, react-in-a-microsecond-or-die seconds.
Dan Simmons
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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay -
They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.
Margaret Cho -
It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.
Leo Strauss -
Make no mistake about it. I don't want a man in here to go back home thinking otherwise; we are going to win.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
Alain de Botton -
I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.
Dinaw Mengestu
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My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan -
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
Umberto Eco -
Consequence is no coincidence.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake -
...be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down...
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
Katharine Tynan