Kay Ryan Quotes
One can't work by limelight. A bowlful right at one's elbow produces no more than a baleful glow against the kitchen table. The fruit purveyors whole unstable pyramid doesn't equal what daylight did.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
Adam Clarke
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
Malcolm Mclaren
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L. J. Smith
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
Zooey Deschanel
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
Karen Bender
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Damon Galgut
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
Samantha Shannon
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. Barnum
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
Olly Murs
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
Dan Jenkins
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If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.
Damien Chazelle
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
Zack Greinke
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
Yitzhak Navon
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I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
Gary Numan
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My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
Carine Roitfeld
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My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are?
Hal Elrod
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Football is my first passion. I've played it since I was a little kid.
Urijah Christopher Faber
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When my blood pressure goes up, my Spanish stuff kicks in.
Carlos Beruff
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One can't work by limelight. A bowlful right at one's elbow produces no more than a baleful glow against the kitchen table. The fruit purveyors whole unstable pyramid doesn't equal what daylight did.
Kay Ryan