Marilynne Robinson Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
K. A. Applegate -
I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
Karla Souza -
Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
Naval Ravikant -
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
Karen DeCrow -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw -
I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
Taylor Lautner -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson -
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar -
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
Said Nursi
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
Xenophanes -
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
Ogden Nash -
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan -
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
Adam Carolla -
I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
Patrick Ness
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My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.
Jake Lloyd -
I think a lot of chefs are afraid of media outlets, and especially web outlets, because they're afraid there's some 'Borat' situation going on.
Andrew Zimmern -
You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
Oswald Chambers -
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Bette Davis -
I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.
Marilynne Robinson