Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
Daniel Boulud -
Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
Hamish Bowles -
I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
Dakota Johnson -
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling -
I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
Earl Hamner, Jr. -
Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
Sam Brownback
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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
Dan Gelber -
My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
Sam Yagan -
I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
Natalie Babbitt -
I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg -
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
P. L. Travers
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I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.
Carla Gugino -
The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
Gabriel Mann -
Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro ser tomado a sério como o que não sou, ignorado humanamente, com decência e naturalidade.
Fernando Pessoa -
'Gansey's partying with his mother,' Ronan said. He smelled like beer. 'And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here'
Maggie Stiefvater -
Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?
P. G. Wodehouse -
To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.
Edward Young
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Through the Spirit's action may the young people gathered here have the courage to become saints! This is what the world needs more than anything else.
Pope Benedict XVI -
Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
William Shakespeare -
I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.
Peter T. King -
Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.
Troy Polamalu -
Aphorisms.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach