Lewis Carroll Quotes
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
Lewis Carroll
Quotes to Explore
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
Patricia Reilly Giff
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
Rachel McAdams
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
Victoria Abril
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
Candice Olson
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
Queen Latifah
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
L'Wren Scott
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
Lady Gregory
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
Dalton McGuinty
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Islam is about finding your own space.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Ted Koppel
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
Lady Gregory
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
A. S. Byatt
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
Aaron Paul
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Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
Zaha Hadid
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
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Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
Bill Maher
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
Van Morrison
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Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
Lewis Carroll
