E. M. Forster Quotes
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.E. M. Forster
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If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
Daniel Baldwin -
I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
Ice Cube -
OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
Patricia Velasquez -
A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
Floyd Skloot -
In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
Eduardo Chillida -
I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.
Wanda Sykes
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I do a lot of ceramics.
Jeff Bridges -
My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.
Ellie Goulding -
I need to work myself into baseball shape. This is part of spring training. I still have to be careful. When the lights come on, I get focused.
Gary Sheffield -
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
Flannery O'Connor -
I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!
Andy Roddick -
It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
Antoni Tapies -
I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?
Andy Rooney -
You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.
Brian Tracy -
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.
Melvyn Douglas -
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. Forster