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uncles book believe
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. Robert Cormier
uncles years sea
Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me." Woody Guthrie
uncles father inspiration
I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me. Nelly
uncles conviction uncle-sam
It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. R. Lee Ermey
uncles father book
I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's. Evangeline Lilly
uncles design silence
It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth. Jules Verne
uncles medicine discovery
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. P. G. Wodehouse
uncles aunt talking
What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo. P. G. Wodehouse
uncles thinking people
He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it. Mark Haddon
lying moving hunting
As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity. Richard Page
lying hate people
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition. Rebecca West
lying book reading
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. Umberto Eco
lying book reflection
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors. Umberto Eco
lying passion insane
The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. Umberto Eco
lying practice dames
Dames lie about anything - just for practice. Raymond Chandler
lying political hours
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. Willie Brown
lying white introducing
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion. William S. Paley
lying book men
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. William S. Burroughs
rumor states resignation
The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded. Frederick William Borden
rumor clean heard
I've heard the rumors but you won't come clean. I guess I'm hoping it's because of me... Selena Gomez
rumor known
The nature of rumor is known to all Tertullian
rumor alive lasts
I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know. Paul McCartney
rumor gorgeous trash
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous. Ben Stiller
rumors taken
Rumors and speculation have taken over the market. Fadel Gheit
rumor violence mystery
We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence... Annie Dillard
rumor conjecture pipe
Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures. William Shakespeare
rumor done scandal
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation. Richard Brinsley Sheridan