Anthony Burgess Quotes
'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'Anthony Burgess
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
Edmund Morgan -
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
Sam Yagan -
I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
Naval Ravikant -
I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
Pat Barker -
As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
Victoria Moran -
The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
I've been things and seen places.
Mae West -
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.
Rajeev Shukla -
Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
Sam Graves -
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
Aberjhani -
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
Orson Pratt -
I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
Taylor Swift -
Coffee is my water now.
Becky G -
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone -
BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.
Ueli Gegenschatz
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When I think back on high school, I always tried to make silly videos with my friends.
Kimiko Glenn -
I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me.
Marie Helvin -
For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.
Jonathan Dimbleby -
The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
Carol Gilligan -
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
Ai Weiwei -
'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'
Anthony Burgess