I. M. Pei Quotes
I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.I. M. Pei
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Vanessa Mae -
People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
Kate Moss -
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco -
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
Jack Benny -
It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
Randa Haines -
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
Aaron Sorkin
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
R. Kelly -
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton -
Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
J. D. Hayworth -
You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
Zig Ziglar -
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
Mallory Ortberg -
Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
Gavin Newsom
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We detect light and particles that have traveled billions of light years on their way across the universe to us. During the billions of years of travel, very small effects due to quantum gravity can be amplified to the point that we can detect them.
Lee Smolin -
Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depicted in John David Morley's recent 'Pictures from the Water Trade.'
Darryl Pinckney -
To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.
Auguste Piccard -
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
Lalla Ward -
I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.
I. M. Pei