Ally Carter Quotes
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
Carl Yastrzemski -
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
Sam Heughan -
I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
Jack Ma -
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
Natasha Trethewey
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
Floyd Skloot -
As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
Randy Forbes -
My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
Adam Hicks -
You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
Victor Cruz -
People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.
J. J. Watt -
White America is in the minority.
Malcolm X
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Daniel Boone -
Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
Samuel Johnson -
Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
Edmund White -
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.
Ayn Rand -
I do believe that the president of Venezuela is really, really destroying his own country, economically, politically.
Condoleezza Rice -
L'accent est l'âme du discours.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Have in readiness this saying of Solon, 'But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth.'
Plutarch -
It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.
Jamie Bell -
What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?
Walter Kirn -
No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
Michael Caine -
Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
Ally Carter