When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it because I'm behind it; it the folks out in front that I jar.
A. H. Euwer
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
John Updike
I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.
Linda Evangelista
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
Pat Conroy
Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
Augusta Jane Evans
I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Tim Allen
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.
John Krasinski
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein, Reflection on th
My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.
George Weah
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Jos
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Augustine Birrell
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
Henrik Ibsen, letter to Georg Br
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop, "comment in the NY J
He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning.
Jim Bishop
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicting all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Dawn, "Seco
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.
Eric Hoffer
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,With loads of learned lumber in his head,With his own tongue still edifies his ears,And always list'ning to himself appears.All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
Alexander Pope
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
Jim Bishop, Age of Consent to Wh
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
James Thurber
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years
Erma Bombeck
Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.
Dave Lombardo
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
Robert W. Service
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
V. S. Naipaul
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
I think the best place to work in football is England.
Jose Mourinho
In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.
Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
Barry White
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
George Burns, At age 87; he live
Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.
Lee Iacocca, "The San Francisco
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