Anthony Burgess Quotes
'The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penological theories....Common criminals...can best be dealt with on a purely curative basis. Kill the criminal reflex, that’s all.'Anthony Burgess
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
Candice Olson -
As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
Jack Ma -
I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
Naomie Harris -
You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
Edie Campbell -
I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.
Viktor Orban -
I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
Gabrielle Anwar -
Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
Earl Weaver -
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
E. M. Forster -
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Zedong -
I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.
Magic Johnson
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I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.
Maeve Binchy -
When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.
Patrick Carman -
Camped on a tropic riverside,One day he missed his loving bride.She had, the guide informed him later,Been eaten by an alligator.Professor Twist could not but smile.'You mean,' he said, 'a crocodile.'
Ogden Nash -
The outsider, Haller says, is a self-divided man; being self-divided, his chief desire is to be unified. He is selfish as a man with a lifelong raging toothache.
Colin Wilson -
The world's become a little too mean.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
Now this nation that I loveHas fallen under attackA mighty sucker punch came flying inFrom somewhere in the backSoon as we could see clearlyThrough our big black eyeMan, we lit up your worldLike the 4th of July.
Toby Keith
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Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.
Cassia Leo -
But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
Bob Schieffer -
The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.
Leigh Brackett -
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Augustus -
'The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penological theories....Common criminals...can best be dealt with on a purely curative basis. Kill the criminal reflex, that’s all.'
Anthony Burgess