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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Tom Wolfe
Being
Belief
Conviction
Existence
Fact
Life
Loneliness
Men
Now
My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
Bill Bruford
Harmony
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
James Jeans
Space
Stars
Will
I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.
Roger Mahony
Church
Law
People
I don’t keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.
Donna Summer
People
Press
I started promoting clubs when I was 15. 1 was doing what is considered the normal collegiate stuff when I was a lot younger. I was holding my own, but doing a lot of crazy things.
Brian Austin Green
I don’t like telling people where I stand on this, although I’m surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I’m pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let’s the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it’s alright he’s pro-choice then I can enjoy this.
Todd Solondz
People
Relax
Wonders
People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It’s not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.
Colin Firth
Bible
Idea
Missionaries
People
We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
Bob Woodward
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal
Duty
End
God
May
Providence
Trust
Truth
As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60’s and 70’s Italian and Spanish Horror films.
Johnny Ramone
Favorite
Film
Hollywood
Horror
A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.
Ruggiero Ricci
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People
I feel I’ve lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
Moshe Dayan
Rest
Want
I was poor. When you’re poor you work, and when you’re rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
Imogen Cunningham
Being
People
Poor
Work
There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
Greg Lake
Time
Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.
Jean Harris
Old
Three simple words – freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
Charles Kennedy
Democrats
Freedom
Honesty
Justice
Liberal
Words
I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I’ve had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn’t been dull; I’ve been the Hiroshima of love.
Sylvester Stallone
Life
Love
Memories
Sons
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Books
God
Prayer
Teaching
Truth
Wisdom
People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.
Cesar Romero
Fact
Nothing
People
Talent
Time
Tribute
Trying
I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.
Anthony Quinn
Freedom
Painting
I don’t want to know about my biggest idols. I don’t want to read their autobiographies, I don’t want to find out what they’re really like.
Meg White
Idols
Want
Action based only on principles isn’t always good even if it feels good.
John Chancellor
Action
Principles
What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.
Paul Prudhomme
World
Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.
Grace Napolitano
Job
I began with track and field because this is what I know.
Sergei Bubka
We’ve not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can’t trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I’m much more conservative with money than George Bush is.
Howard Dean
Balance
Conservative
Money
President
Republican
Republicans
Right
Trust
Years
There are certain times I don’t want my picture taken. If my wife’s stepping out of a car and it looks like it’s going to come out an indecent picture, don’t I have a right to object?
Bobby Darin
Car
Right
Want
Wife
I will be a historical painter.
William Allan
Will
There aren’t any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you’re just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.
Guy Clark
Rules
Songs
Writing
They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Mind
Talk
I certainly wasn’t able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me – I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
Martin Scorsese
Balance
Growing up
People
Right
Time
Violence
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Michael Shermer
Meaning
Morality
Motivation
Myths
Never mind a world that can’t see past brutality.
Ric Ocasek
Mind
Past
World
They come together like the Coroner’s Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
William Congreve
The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
Pete Sampras
Difference
Play
Tolerance always has limits – it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Sidney Hook
Limits
Tolerance
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Doctrine
Life
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell
Being
Fortune
Living
Sleep
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon
Heart
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.
Leo Ornstein
Language
Music
Today
Value
I don’t believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
Ann Landers
Collecting is my passion.
Ursula Andress
Passion
Writing, I’m convinced, should be a subversive activity – frowned on by the authorities – and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Dan Simmons
Common sense
Writing
Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
Leslie Charteris
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I’ve done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
Don Shula
Ability
Coach
Coaching
Hope
Winning
Years
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
Ted Rall
American
Bosses
Pretty
Workers
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler
Delusion
Superficiality
Vanity
One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions – to a different content – but in in my case it is all one.
Alva Noto
Content
Sound
I’ve been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.
Craig McCracken
Artists
Family