Lucan Quotes

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• I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Sun
  • Poison
  • Cancerous

• He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Wisdom

• The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Home

• I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Long
  • Logic

• To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Level
  • Unrealistic

• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • Style
  • Fierce
  • Grammar

• Sometimes when I'm on set, I keep eating, and people are like, 'You really eat that?' I'm like, 'Yes, I do.'

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Eating

• Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Passion

• I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • May
  • Myself

• The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Reality
  • Law
  • Weird

• My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Family
  • Age
  • Night

• It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Moment
  • I Can
  • Go

• There is a reality - so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.

  

  Alfred Stieglitz
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Reality

• I adore Madrid. It's my city. If I ever move, it will only be for work. Whenever I travel, I always want to get back home.

  

  Maria Valverde
  • Work
  • Home
  • City

• I know I am not alone in struggling with Facebook and how we experience it through its news feed.

  

  Om Malik
  • Experience
  • Alone

• I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

  

  Enid Blyton
  • Children
  • Interesting

• If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.

  

  John Dalton
  • Men
  • Character
  • Science

• We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. ... One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

  

  Philip Levine
  • Mother

• Postquam leges bello siluere coactaepellimur e patriis laribus patimurque volentesexilium.

  

  Lucan