Colin Wilson Quotes
The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.Colin Wilson
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
A. S. Byatt -
I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
Zara Larsson -
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
Sam Heughan -
You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
Kate Winslet -
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady -
I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
Karl Rove
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
Hanneli Mustaparta -
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Paris Hilton -
What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
Garth Brooks -
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
Aaron Eckhart -
I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
Zach Galifianakis -
I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
Olivia d'Abo -
South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
Laura Ingraham -
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
Caio Fonseca -
I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
Lamar Hunt -
I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
Warren Spector
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I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.
Matthew McConaughey -
Tell me, why do you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else; get's me frustrated. Life's like this: You fall and you crawl and you break and you take what you get and you turn it into. Honestly, you promised me I'm never going to find you faking. No, no! No!
Avril Lavigne -
Life is a work in progress.
Jeff Rich The Climax Blues Band -
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field -
Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.
M. L. Stedman -
The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.
Colin Wilson