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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. (Norman Mailer)
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. View quote
Jane Goodall
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. View quote
Pancho Villa
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. View quote
Steve Jobs
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. View quote
Joseph Addison
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. View quote
Lily Tomlin
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. View quote
Norman Rockwell
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. (Oscar Wilde)
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated. View quote
Howard Stern
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. View quote
José Saramago
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon. View quote
William F. Buckley
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. (John Wayne)
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. View quote
Ray Bradbury
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. View quote
Doris Lessing
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. View quote
Carl Jung
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. View quote
Douglas Adams
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