Clifford D. Simak Quotes
To cover up actual lack of knowledge, the tale develops an explanation which amounts to divine intervention. It is an easy and, to the primitive mind, a plausible and satisfactory way to explain something of which nothing at all is known.Clifford D. Simak
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
Octavia Spencer -
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
Hamid Karzai -
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
Gary Oldman -
I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
Maeve Binchy -
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
Eddie Campbell -
She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
Kaia Gerber
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
Edgar Ramirez -
I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
Cameron Mackintosh -
You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
Pat Gillick -
I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
Lamar Odom -
But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
Natalie Massenet -
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
Pierre Corneille -
I don't see myself as a violent guy.
Gene Hackman -
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber -
To cover up actual lack of knowledge, the tale develops an explanation which amounts to divine intervention. It is an easy and, to the primitive mind, a plausible and satisfactory way to explain something of which nothing at all is known.
Clifford D. Simak