J. B. Priestley Quotes
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.J. B. Priestley
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston -
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan -
Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
Wayne Huizenga -
My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
Dan Carter -
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
Sam Riley -
I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
Raine Maida
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
Victoria Osteen -
Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
Carlos Ghosn -
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
Rachel Hunter -
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson -
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch -
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
Barbara Bush
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
Imtiaz Ali -
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
Salman Rushdie -
You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
Dalai Lama -
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde -
We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
Eduard Buchner
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That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.
Martina McBride -
The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.
Mario Cuomo -
I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
Laura Marano -
It's important to feel settled and balanced in life, and that has been tough for me to do.
Kyle Shewfelt -
Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
Al Pacino -
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
J. B. Priestley