E. M. Forster Quotes
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?E. M. Forster
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
D. A. Pennebaker -
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Ida B. Wells -
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
Jackson Browne -
I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
J. C. Watts -
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
Fede Alvarez
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
Pat Buchanan -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles -
There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
Samantha Power -
The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
Dan Wheldon -
When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
Randy Houser
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
L. Neil Smith -
All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. -
Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
Flannery O'Connor -
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
Patricia Richardson -
Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
Adam Mansbach -
The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.
Kamala Harris -
Black people are fed up with the dillydallying, pussyfooting, compromising approach that we’ve been using toward getting our freedom. We want freedom now, but we’re not going to get it saying 'We Shall Overcome.' We’ve got to fight until we overcome.
Malcolm X -
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
E. M. Forster