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barely halfway highest people third thousand
I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain. Chris Bohjalian
barely chuck consider decades earlier injustices jerry lee lewis people remain
Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments. Neil Strauss
barely draws force midst mysterious plains squat towns
Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you? Nikolai Gogol
barely desperate devices lives moved seem time trying ways
In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Pico Iyer
barely great guy half stride
We were half a stride away today. Jose made a great play, but the guy just barely was safe. Willie Bloomquist
barely bike boy clean lane projects scout street wide
We've had Boy Scout projects to clean up that bike lane many times. The street is barely wide enough for cars. Garrett Smith
barely carry computers form future great people small traveling
We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor. Mitchell Baker
barely body held
My body has held up like I can barely believe,
barely mike race talked
Mike and I barely talked during the race,
books helpful leave readers role
Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. Gail Carriger
books encourage hear intend meant
One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search. Zadie Smith
books love
When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
books disease medical patients phenomena study uncharted
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. William Osler
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy. Wendi McLendon-Covey
books brown chris dismissed gets sold
I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. Chuck Palahniuk
books carry favorite travel
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
books bullets precious using wonderful
It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. Yann Martel
books brand lesson love specific time
I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.
boredom firsts world
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. Cecil Beaton
boredom battle despair
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. B. F. Skinner
boredom few mature next stay time top until
His own boredom could be a problem. He could stay on top a long time -- if that's what he wants. That's a big 'if.' That's up to him. He's under a lot of pressure, and the next few years will be a problem. He won't mature until he's 25. Kevin Rooney
boredom judging fool
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom. David Mitchell
boredom enemy television
The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability. David Nevins
boredom towns news
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
boredom burns enthusiasm fire plague worth
When fire burns the enthusiasm is worth seeing. People, who are enthusiastic and happy, lethargy and boredom never plague them.
boredom made ennui
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice. Charles Caleb Colton
boredom indifference contempt
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. Charlaine Harris
came encounter greece grew life nightmare result writings
My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74. Yanis Varoufakis
came gene judy kelly life music says
Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland. Imelda May
came known
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore. Ian Mckellen
came cartoon dealt work
I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.
came iraq july strongly war
In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East. Donald Trump
camera face following
I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
came guy home meet
If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard. Zac Efron
came
The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up. Yotam Ottolenghi
came cities difficult mindset people sure time tried village walk
People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.
cities decades economic elite families hometown local people praise society whom
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Timothy Noah
cities cultural deeply dynamic fantastic flock nor people replaced seductive sorts useful
I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
cities disaster far happily love moved nature people
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. Alice Walker
cities collective flourishes irrational madness man modern needs producing
Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. Gore Vidal
cities chicago privatization
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. Bethany McLean
cities circles typical
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. Bill Bryson
cities lakes tea
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me. Bertrand Russell
cities coming requests similar
We could have other cities coming to us with similar requests in the future.
cities influence odds rules strict talking terms
We have very strict rules about what we can and can't do in terms of the USOC. What we can't do right now is lobby, ... The odds are that if the rules had not been changed, all the cities would be talking to the IOC to get it to influence the USOC.
cling coming country kept peace secure true welfare wrong
The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. Carl Schurz
cling fatigue helping instead man playing team tendency
When that fatigue hits, you have a tendency to cling to your man instead of helping and playing team defense.
clinging serpent strange tree twist
Lithe and long as the serpent train,Springing and clinging from tree to tree,Now darting upward, now down again,With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see. William Simms
clinging serpent strange tree twist
Lithe and long as the serpent train, Springing and clinging from tree to tree, Now darting upward, now down again, With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.
clinging dear life onto side terrible tour
I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun. Gareth Gates
cling government months pathetic seen trying
For months we have seen the government trying to cling to a pathetic pretence of a ceasefire,
clinging hold perhaps tenacity
He will go, but he'll go screaming. He can perhaps hold a little longer. He is clinging with such tenacity it's staggering.
cling continue country current demands factor humiliated level maintain notion
I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year? David Suzuki
cling economy grow home land layer life thin
This is suicidal... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists. It's fixed, it can't grow, and yet we cling to this idea that the economy can grow forever. And it must. Well, it can't.
gestures statistics may
It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture. Dave Barry
gestures juxtaposition affection
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me. Bernhard Schlink
gestures hollywood symbolic
Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures. Drew Carey
gestures way example
A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture. Donnie Yen
gestures doe sometimes
Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture. Craig Newmark
gestures empty filled
Most full lives are filled with empty gestures. Carolyn Heilbrun
gestures matter remember
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
gestures looks language
we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death Julian Barnes
gestures helping difficult-times
Don't underestimate your own strength. To persevere. To make it through the most difficult of times. And, JUST as importantly, don't underestimate your ability to help someone ELSE during THEIR most difficult times. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word, or gesture, to help someone make it through their day. Jared Padalecki
human literally onstage watched work
Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do. Will Chase
human
The human heart is the same the world over. Billy Graham
human obsessed
I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality. Ellie Goulding
human model organisms
Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells. Bonnie Bassler
human
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.
human lucy opportunity realized represent species understanding
When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins. Donald Johanson
human
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something. Newt Gingrich
human people
The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. Ricky Martin
human juicy shows
Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.
realm rightly
I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs. Edmund Hillary
realms pure
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present. D. H. Lawrence
realms marvelous
Every realm of nature is marvelous. Aristotle
realm
It's just a whole different realm of a leadoff man. You've got to be patient. David Eckstein
realm within
It's completely within the realm of possibility that what they need is hospitalization, Christine Gregoire
realm
Nothing's out of the realm of possibility right now.
realms eccentricity
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity... David Bowie
realm tendency women
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem. Hanna Rosin
realm sitcom within
It's different, but within the realm of the sitcom still, Neil Harris
remembered
I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. S. Truett Cathy
remembered
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. E. M. Forster
remembered strength
Dana will always be remembered for her passion, strength and ceaseless courage.
remembered touched
Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible. Cassandra Clare
remembered acquire
You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute. Mark Victor Hansen
remembered skins skirt winning
Sometimes I think I'm better remembered for the Skins skirt than for winning the Players. Fred Funk
remembered
Some day I will be better remembered. Grover Cleveland
remembered
No one gets remembered for the things they didn't do Frank Turner
remembered stand
Be remembered for who you are and what you stand for.
surface youth
My surface is myself.Under whichto witness, youth isburied. Roots?Everybody has roots. William Williams
surface television
We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.
surface
We are just scratching the surface right now.
surface texas three types
There's three types of mines, and what we have in Texas is surface mining.
surface cures torment
Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside. David Lynch
surface
The surface is all you get of me. Gary Hume
surface
While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Ivan Pavlov
surface work
It may have been more that we're working out on a different surface than what we usually work on in Pittsburgh. Bill Cowher
surface beneath-the-surface motley-crue
If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface. Nikki Sixx
thus wrong
Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy. William Shakespeare
thus work
Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest. Michio Kaku
thus
We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.
women
I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
women
Maybe not many women are going to film school. Gillian Armstrong
women
I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids. Zoe Lister-Jones
women wore
Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously. Bella Abzug
women
So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women. Bobbi Brown
women war world
If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.
women law opinion
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. Carrie Chapman Catt
women distance giving
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
women empowering inspirational-women
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else. Bette Davis
words
I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it. Shizuka Arakawa
words
I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it. Irina Slutskaya
words
Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.
words worked works
He was a wordsmith. A blacksmith works with metal, he worked with words. Bruce Bennett
words
He did not say many words. He was very happy.
words
I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.
words-of-wisdom cheerful poor
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? Charles Dickens
words-of-wisdom records trials
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Trifles make the sum of life.