V. S. Pritchett Quotes
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
V. S. Pritchett
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Yahoo Serious
In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
Yoenis Cespedes
Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
Jacky Ickx
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
Carice van Houten
I think punditry serves no purpose.
Nate Silver
The secret of war lies in the communications.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Ida B. Wells
My older brothers, they know how to keep my head straight and be thinking about what I need to do on the court. Now I have that in me, that mentality, that I want to get better and better every game. Thanks to them, they showed me the way.
Kristaps Porzingis
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
Bo Jackson
Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.
John Katzman
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
V. S. Pritchett