Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPERIt may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I’ve slept with Prince.
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AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Life is not a multiple choice test, it’s an open-book essay exam.
ALAN BLINDER -
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
MARQUIS DE SADE -
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
EZRA POUND -
So there’s kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe
BILL SIENKIEWICZ -
My dad is the nicest guy you’ll ever meet, and the easiest going.
SERENA WILLIAMS -
And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
JANIS JOPLIN -
The precise place where you would expect to see the least.
ALAN CHARLES KORS -
I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
ERNEST SHACKLETON -
How do you build a relationship when you’ve hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don’t see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
BORIS BECKER -
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MARILYN MONROE -
It’s very important to stretch, because while it’s good to look pumped
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What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI