Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
IGOR STRAVINSKYBoxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
More Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
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All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
ROLAND BARTHES -
England was full of words I’d never heard before – streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
BILL BRYSON -
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Usually I’m not really conscious of what’s going on. I don’t have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
BRADFORD COX -
I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
Hoes want attention, women want respect.
DRAKE -
From abundance springs safety.
LIVY -
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE -
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
NELSON MANDELA -
As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good.
KATE WINSLET -
I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
BOBBY FISCHER -
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.
BENAZIR BHUTTO -
I know loving you has consequences. In silence from a distance and alone.
NOOR BAZZI -
Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
BILL WATTERSON -
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
ALBERT CAMUS