Gertrude Bell Quotes
I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.
Gertrude Bell
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
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I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.
Kanye West
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Expect the unexpected, that was the S.T.A.R.S. motto—although.
S. D. Perry
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
Albert Einstein
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
William James
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James
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He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.
Catherine Fisher
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Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.
Carole Lombard
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I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.
Tommy Lee
Mötley Crüe
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
Moliere
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I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Samuel Johnson
