Alexander Pope Quotes
Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!Alexander Pope
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
Kangana Ranaut -
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben -
I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
J. B. Smoove -
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes -
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust -
I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
Karl Rove
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
Daniel Bryan -
A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
Hailey Bieber -
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
Carla Bley -
I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
C. J. Box -
The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
R. L. Stine
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
Sam Shepard -
You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
Gary Bettman -
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
Karin Slaughter -
It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
Nancy Gibbs -
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
Barry Pepper -
I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.
T. Boone Pickens
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Every girl is capable of murder if you hurt her.
Cady Groves -
Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
Rachel Joyce -
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.
Maya Angelou -
I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!
Donald Freed -
Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!
Alexander Pope