A. S. Byatt Quotes
Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your blissA. S. Byatt
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
J. Maarten Troost -
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi -
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
Garrett Clayton -
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Quintilian -
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
Malcolm McDowell -
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Ralph Vaughan Williams -
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
Idris Elba -
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
Gail Collins -
In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson -
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
Camille Claudel -
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson -
The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
Edmund S. Muskie -
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. Applegate
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The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.
Douglas Kirkland -
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco -
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
Jeffrey Wright -
Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss
A. S. Byatt