Louis Auchincloss Quotes
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.Louis Auchincloss
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All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
My worst expectations never happened.
Barbara Bush -
You don't have to be something to do something.
Gavin Newsom -
If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
Kapil Dev -
I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
Yves Behar -
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
Q-Tip -
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
Kate DiCamillo -
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
Warren Farrell -
I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
Adam Arkin -
Is it named after Michael Jordan?
Sacha Baron Cohen
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The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
J. G. Ballard -
Now you're gone, and nobody says a word about your troubled and exalted life. Only my voice, like a flute, will mourn at your dumb funeral feast.
Anna Akhmatova -
One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.
Antonio Porchia -
I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
Matt Bomer -
For me, governing starts with people. It doesn't start with bureaucracy. It doesn't start with policy. It starts with people and what people need to thrive.
Betsy Hodges -
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
Jane Smiley
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Say not the struggle nought availeth,The labour and the wounds are vain,The enemy faints not, nor faileth,And as things have been, things remain.
Arthur Hugh Clough -
I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.
Anna Paquin -
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
David Icke -
I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I can't stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I'd rather just play someone like Dwight Howard out in Orlando or people back home. For games like that, it's cool, but just signing on and playing random people, I hate it.
J. R. Smith -
The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
Billy Joel -
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Louis Auchincloss