W. S. Merwin Quotes
Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
W. S. Merwin
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
Vikas Swarup
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
Waylon Jennings
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
Jackie Earle Haley
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I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.
Larry the Cable Guy
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Wendell Phillips
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Martha Graham
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I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
Adam Johnson
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I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
Jeff Tweedy
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
Janine di Giovanni
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Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
Lee Strobel
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
W. S. Merwin