Anna Akhmatova Quotes
For seventeen months I have cried aloud calling you back to your lair. I hurled myself at the hangman's foot. You are my son, changed into nightmare. Confusion occupies the world, and I am powerless to tell somebody brute from something human, or on what day the word spells, 'Kill!'Anna Akhmatova
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
Taylor Dye -
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee -
Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
Daniel Drew -
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
Kate Clinton -
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung -
I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
Ian Mckellen
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
Jacob deGrom -
I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
Olivia Culpo -
My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
Sam Kinison -
God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
Bailee Madison -
We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
Zadie Smith -
The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
Barbara Mandrell
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It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
John George Nicolay -
I get criticized for anything I do.
Jose Canseco -
It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
Fidel Castro -
That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
Diplo -
While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.
James E. Faust -
For seventeen months I have cried aloud calling you back to your lair. I hurled myself at the hangman's foot. You are my son, changed into nightmare. Confusion occupies the world, and I am powerless to tell somebody brute from something human, or on what day the word spells, 'Kill!'
Anna Akhmatova