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Brooks Atkinson

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This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave i...
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac...
ROBERT REDFORD See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
<...
PHILIP K. DICK He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain...
ANNIE BESANT O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why, so ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER Responsive leaders prefer knowledge and information to be spread as widely as possible among the pop...
TERESA STOVER Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not lik...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here comes Monseiur Le Beau.
Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine li...
BILL BAILEY I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want...
CASSANDRA CLARE The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned he...
CASSANDRA CLARE Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand ...
DAVID OGILVY What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Be...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
THUCYDIDES A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a f...
EDWARD M. LERNER Don't quench the courageous spirit you begun with; you'll still need it when the going gets tough an...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da...
WOODY ALLEN To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO In such a way the contribution of IDEA to rural development through training and capacity building i...
IMMS NAMASEB I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to unde...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo ...
A.S. PETERSON Knowledge is not vast collection of academic degrees but right empowerment of open mind with an enli...
ANUJ SOMANY Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowled...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Fortune favors the bold, history tells us. Therefore, it behooves us to be as bold as possible.
ERIKA JOHANSEN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON I'm one of my sensations.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. I...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy ...
CARROLL QUIGLEY ...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...
ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Knowledge is power.
FRANCIS BACON Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,
STEWART STAFFORD Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...

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GORDON ATKINSON See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things...
GORDON ATKINSON If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru...
GORDON ATKINSON Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whisperin...
GORDON ATKINSON One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case ...
GORDON ATKINSON Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.
GORDON ATKINSON I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
GORDON ATKINSON External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or ev...
GORDON ATKINSON You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
GORDON ATKINSON When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
GORDON ATKINSON There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with p...
GORDON ATKINSON This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
GORDON ATKINSON You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
GORDON ATKINSON I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot ...
GORDON ATKINSON I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose ...
GORDON ATKINSON This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or ...
GORDON ATKINSON I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you ...
GORDON ATKINSON Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
GORDON ATKINSON My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful ...
GORDON ATKINSON Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
GORDON ATKINSON The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush ...
GORDON ATKINSON I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended perio...
ROWAN ATKINSON We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five yea...
ROWAN ATKINSON Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ...
KATE ATKINSON I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that ...
ROWAN ATKINSON Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.
RON ATKINSON I would have proposed more innovative initiatives, but given our benchmark, which was zero, I think ...
ROB ATKINSON Ideally, who you really want in that position is an entrepreneur who has built a small business into...
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