Gordon Lightfoot Quotes
The liquor tasted good and here the women all were fast...You can't jump a jet planeLike you can a freight trainSo I'll best be on my wayIn the early morning rainGordon Lightfoot
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
Kate Winslet -
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
W. Eugene Smith -
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West -
No one pays me to be nice.
Aaron Allston -
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
Carlene Carter -
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
Daniel Alarcon -
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
Walter Jon Williams -
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
Vaclav Klaus -
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
Felix Dennis -
At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
Rachel Kushner
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
Harold Washington -
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
Zola Jesus -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
Beck -
After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
Francesca Annis -
Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
Ban Ki-moon
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The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
Dinaw Mengestu -
Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.
Jim Sensenbrenner -
I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care.
Eric Church -
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei -
No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?
H. G. Wells -
The liquor tasted good and here the women all were fast...You can't jump a jet planeLike you can a freight trainSo I'll best be on my wayIn the early morning rain
Gordon Lightfoot