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smart interesting stuff
Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out. Liev Schreiber
smart thinking games
Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.
smart political intelligence
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. Franklin D. Roosevelt
smart men people
Politicians are enormously smart and rational. They don't have the same interests as businessmen ... But a man rises to the top of the United States. He's clawed his way out of 330 million people. OK. He didn't do that because he was dumb, or lucky, or something like that. He understands power. And he understands how to take it. And he understands how to keep it. George Friedman
smart dumb world
In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb. George Gilder
smart understanding trying
We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on. Jon Ronson
smart kate
I've always liked Kate Winslet. She's pretty, smart, and talented. Jon Heder
smart phones self
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions. Jon Kabat-Zinn
smart luck ran
Luck ran out, but smart was for life. John Connolly
hands oysters cities
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell. Jan Morris
hands looks remakes
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now. Toni Morrison
hands guy fists
If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend. Ricardo Montalban
hands together naked
I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together. Robert Mapplethorpe
hands evil identity
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil. Robert Louis Stevenson
hands argument cowardice
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;
hands feet black
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet. Robert E. Howard
hands enemy flags
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. Walt Kelly
hands long identity
When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me. Walt Whitman
literature life-is hell
Without literature, life is hell. Charles Bukowski
literature cost postmodernism
Postmodernism cost literature its audience. Scott Turow