Patrick O'Brian Quotes
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
Karen Gillan -
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
Walter Jon Williams -
I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
Karen Allen -
Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
Gary Gygax -
I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
Taylor Swift -
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
Olga Korbut
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
Manoj Bhargava -
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
Ian Frazier -
I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
Imogen Cunningham -
My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
Taylor Dye -
I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.
Natalie Imbruglia
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I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.
FKA twigs -
You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.
Lady Gaga -
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
Gavin DeGraw -
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
Orson Welles -
Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra -
Sound loves to revel in a summer night.
Edgar Allan Poe
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But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–” “I didn’t, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.
Rachel Caine -
It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?
Haruki Murakami -
Some gems for the greatest of them all.
Muhammad Ali -
There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.
Christopher Bollen -
The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
W. Clement Stone -
Desolation Island (1979)
Patrick O'Brian