Helena Blavatsky Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
Hanna Rosin -
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth -
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
Carl Hubbell -
I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
Ida Lupino -
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
Patrick Ewing
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
Ian Rush -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
Eartha Kitt -
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
FKA twigs -
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
Patrick deWitt -
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
Victor Cruz -
I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
Damian Lewis -
Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
M. J. Rose -
Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
Pat Buchanan
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Valor is common but great souls are rare.
Bernard Joseph Saurin -
I was over there, entertaining the troops. I won't say which troops.
Phil Ochs -
I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
William Shakespeare -
Wiping out is an underappreciated skill.
Laird Hamilton -
There is no religion higher than truth.
Helena Blavatsky