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 -
Schooling is so important.
Haile Gebrselassie -
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Carl von Clausewitz
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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.
Barack Obama -
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
Yehuda Amichai -
Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
Marc Andreesen -
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J. Paul Getty -
The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
Patrick Ness -
…the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…
Anthony Burgess