George Pope Morris Quotes
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
Sam Claflin -
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
Mal Peet -
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
E. Stanley Jones -
Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'
Kate Bush -
Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.
Victor Koo -
I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
Irma S. Rombauer
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.
Edmund Phelps -
Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
Oliver Sacks -
Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
Lydia Lunch -
India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.
Pratibha Patil -
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain
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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John Steinbeck -
I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
Johann Heinrich Lambert -
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
Meg Rosoff -
I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
Bobby Fischer -
But the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.
David Harvey -
In mirth that after no repenting draws.
John Milton
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If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
Forest Whitaker -
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
John Barton -
A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.
George Pope Morris