Anthony Burgess Quotes
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
Olivier Martinez -
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor -
The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
Barry Manilow -
You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
Oliver Reed -
I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
Taylor Swift -
In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
Narendra Modi
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Army life don't agree with me.
Eddie Slovik -
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch Spinoza -
If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don't eat.
Octavia Spencer -
I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
Cameron Diaz -
You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
Waylon Jennings -
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
Umberto Eco
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Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
Oliver E. Williamson -
This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.
Jack Layton -
Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters.
Jack Layton -
Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
Dan Simmons -
Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry, Of the torches wisping in the underground, Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light. There are no shadows in our sun, Day is desire and night is sleep. There are no shadows anywhere. The earth, for us, is flat and bare. There are no shadows.
Wallace Stevens -
I don't wanna lose your faceAnd I don't wanna wake up one dayand not remember what time erased.I don't wanna turn around'Cause I'm not scared of what love gave me and took away.And I don't wanna lose your face...
Taylor Swift
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Turning 90 is not for sissies.
Jerry Lewis -
Diane von Furstenberg is an extraordinary woman. She's modern. She's a mother, a grandmother, a leader.
Karen Katz -
We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.
John Grisham -
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
Karen Duffy -
Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.
Kerby Jean-Raymond -
‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
Anthony Burgess