Anthony Burgess Quotes
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
Wayne McGregor -
Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
Taylor Dane
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Capek -
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Tabitha King -
I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
Nadine Labaki -
The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
Olympia Dukakis -
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
Aaron Carter -
America is a meritocracy.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
Carly Fiorina -
I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
Zoe Saldana -
There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
Dan Hicks -
Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
Francesco Guicciardini -
Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
Ramez Naam -
Schooling is so important.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
Yasuhiro Konishi -
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I hope that the new leader, whoever they are - and I hope that it will be Hillary - will bring our country back to participation by all groups and will talk about how technology will enable not just 10% of our population, but all of our population.
John T. Chambers -
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
Mark Twain -
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
Oscar Wilde -
…the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…
Anthony Burgess