Aliette de Bodard Quotes
All the heads of Houses looked like tigers who’d just caught prey— which boded ill for Silverspires.
Aliette de Bodard
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Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
Quentin Crisp
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I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.
Cynthia Nixon
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
Robert Frost
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This is a vast country, the infrastructure is expensive and it's a bigger country than the United States is, ... I am saying that if we were 40 million Canadians, that infrastructure would not be necessarily a lot more expensive, but we would be more (people) to foot the bill.
Pierre Pettigrew
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As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
Aristotle
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When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.
Mike Tyson
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Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
Adolf Hitler
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The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs.
Carl Yastrzemski
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You look like a normal person, if you can find a normal person who wants to look like that.
Milton Berle
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Rooms in one of those spacious old houses with the large windows facing the sun, and plenty of books—if I were that abstracted but happy form of reptile called a bookworm, which I believed I am prevented from being only by my sex, the genus, I am told, being persistently male, I would take care to spend at least one of my life’s winters in Putbus. How divinely quiet it would be. What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.
Eva Green
