David Kenyon Webster Quotes
Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?David Kenyon Webster
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
Valentino Garavani -
In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
Naftali Bennett -
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet -
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
Damon Galgut -
Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.
Yasmine Bleeth -
I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
Campbell Scott
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
Zooey Deschanel -
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
Salman Rushdie -
Although an important amount of repairs and conservation works have been carried out right from the British period in India these have not compromised to the original qualities of the buildings.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
H. P. Lovecraft -
They can't ignore us, and they can't put us down. Thank God for the Internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we would already be a fascist state.
Cindy Sheehan -
'Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.'
Connie Willis
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No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. (20 December 1939)
Eleanor Roosevelt -
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.
Elizabeth Berg -
Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
David Macinnis Gill -
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.
Matthew Simpson -
I think there's an ability to make an immigration system that works.
Kevin McCarthy -
Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.
Sia LSD
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If you're going to take a risk as a comic, make sure it's surrounded by other things that you're certain are funny.
Fred Willard -
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato -
If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
Matthew Desmond -
I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard -
Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?
David Kenyon Webster