Alan Bennett Quotes
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.Alan Bennett
Quotes to Explore
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
Daniel Cormier -
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
Felice Picano -
I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
Patricia Velasquez -
If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
Victoria Wood -
If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
Dan Phillips
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
Parker Posey -
One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
Padma Lakshmi -
Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
Iris Chang -
I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
Vance Joy
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
Zaha Hadid -
We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.
Zac Brown Band -
When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
Paloma Faith -
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer -
Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
E. Y. Harburg -
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
Majora Carter
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Research cited by Robert Cohen has made the point that there is up to a gallon of extra mucus in the body created as a result of drinking dairy. The mucus problem is associated with the fact that 87 percent of milk protein is casein, the main ingredient of Elmer's Glue.
Gabriel Cousens -
Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
Hans Jonas -
I would like to sit down with Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, PJ Harvey, and Bjork. That would be a good dinner in my mind. Strong women. I think I would enjoy that.
Freja Beha Erichsen -
It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
Ken Robinson -
I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.
Randy Lerner -
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
Alan Bennett