Wallace Stegner Quotes
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.Wallace Stegner
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
Famke Janssen -
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson -
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Fran Lebowitz -
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
Maggie Smith -
Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan -
It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki -
I like doing my own stunts.
Ram Charan -
I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
Rachel Platten -
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
Ornette Coleman
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
Patrick deWitt -
I care about being creative and expressing myself.
Parker Posey -
In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
J. K. Simmons -
I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. Watt -
I have a hyper personality.
Zoe Saldana -
There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
Karen Armstrong
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Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
E. O. Wilson -
People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.
Anton Chekhov -
Most of those men don’t want to sleep with you,” he said in blunt rebuttal. “I reserve the right to introduce my fist to the faces of the ones who do.
Nalini Singh -
My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
Patrick Roy -
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.
Wallace Stegner