Craig Brown Quotes
I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.Craig Brown
Quotes to Explore
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
I. M. Pei -
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
Rand Paul -
All my books are optimistic!
Malcolm Gladwell -
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
Sally Schneider
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
Omar N. Bradley -
I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
Candice Glover -
I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
Daniel Dae Kim -
It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
Pankaj Mishra -
I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
Alfred North Whitehead
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It's safe to say headphones is a good business.
DJ Khaled -
I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.
Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes -
I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.
Drew Barrymore -
I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?
Elisha Cuthbert -
When something is aspirational, you don't want someone to be thinking about payment every single time.
Payal Kadakia -
I'm an inner city man, born and bred.
Liam Cunningham
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I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.
Natalie Dormer -
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck -
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
A. R. Ammons -
In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.
Bertrand Russell -
As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.
Soren Kierkegaard -
I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.
Craig Brown