Margery Allingham Quotes
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
Barbra Streisand -
I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
Paris Hilton -
People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.
Rachel Johnson -
I'm afraid of the dark, but I choose to sleep in the dark. I can fall right to sleep with the lights on. But I want to be someone who can sleep in the dark, so that's the choice that I make.
Amanda Lindhout -
The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.
Daniel Kahneman -
I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
Linda Ronstadt
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.
Patrick Ness -
I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
Leonard Susskind -
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
S. I. Hayakawa
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
Bill Vaughan -
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
Bruce Sterling -
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.
William Gibson -
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
William Hague -
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
Alan Rickman -
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Hugo Black -
I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
Taylor Swift -
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
Ivan Turgenev -
It was a little skirmish across a century.
Margery Allingham