Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
Quotes to Explore
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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I'm a composer, man.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
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I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.
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I like to see a driven kid: somebody who wants to come from the ground up. I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.
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Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
