George Fordyce Quotes
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
L. Sprague de Camp
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
Zach Galligan
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
Federico Fellini
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I choose to focus on the positive.
Halima Aden
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
P. J. O'Rourke
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
Carl Karcher
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
Damian Lewis
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I just have work to do; I just do it.
Ian MacKaye
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Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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My mother is happy with whatever I choose to do in life as long as I'm happy, healthy, and safe.
Nargis Fakhri
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I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.
Barbara Bush
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With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...
Anna Sui
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames
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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
James Surowiecki
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The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
Mario Cuomo
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A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
Bindi Irwin
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My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.
Meg Ryan
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Many of the cannabis producers are very cash rich. They've got the resources to pay a very good wage.
Andrew Morse
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Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.
Michael Ian Black
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I really think of myself just as a filmmaker.
Asghar Farhadi
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What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
Blaise Pascal
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Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?
George Fordyce