Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.Lawrence Clark Powell
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
Bailee Madison -
The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
Taylor Mali -
Good design should be honest.
Ferdinand Porsche -
I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
Gabriel Luna -
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
Barry Hannah -
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
Sam Kinison
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
Eddie Mathews -
I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
Karolyn Grimes -
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
Kate Hudson -
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
Damien Hirst -
Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
Idina Menzel -
I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
Victoria Pendleton
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
Adam Oates -
It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
Caio Fonseca -
I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
Ed Gillespie -
Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
F. Lee Bailey -
Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
Harriet Harman -
I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
Abbey Clancy
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It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.
Gary Lineker -
Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.
Saigyō -
I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.
Pedro Pascal -
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
Lawrence Clark Powell