He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.
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Related When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long... A. SALEH He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t... EMILY DICKINSON I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him. JACK KLUGMAN A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing throu... STEVE CARELL Neither lend money to a great man nor borrow it from a powerful one. VIKRANT PARSAI He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That... JOSEPH CONRAD He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He ... PATRICK DOWNES A young fella snuck out on to the field somehow, but when he was coming up to give me a hug, he got ... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally. GEORGE ORWELL A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by viol... RALPH WALDO EMERSON When he smoked marijuana he tended to masterbate a great deal. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he sc... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he ... GENERAL NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF He never smoked and he was a physical fitness person, very healthy in his lifestyle. With any luck h... BRENDAN MALLON Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we al... DAN MILLMAN Never judge a man by his relatives; he didn’t choose them. VIKRANT PARSAI Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we al... DAN MILLMAN He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged th... MEG CABOT He had heard a voice, a voice in his own heart, which had commanded him to seek rest under this tree... HERMANN HESSE He might have had some jitters early, but overall he gave us some great innings. His stuff was good.... DON LEITZEL My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen ... JIM YONG KIM Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Firm and erect the Caledonian stood;
Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;
"Let him drink... ANONYMOUS And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his natural f... BIBLE And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural for... BIBLE Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was s... DREW BARRYMORE He was young. He seemed cool and hip. He wore his hair long and he rode a motorcycle. ... He was a p... TODD HICKS He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither s... PHILIP ZALESKI A lot of relatives felt he was told to turn his back on his background by Eddie Collins and not ackn... BILL NOWLIN I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful mus... RICK WAKEMAN It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life... SHANNON L. ALDER That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe... LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked b... STEPHEN FRY A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toi... DOROTHEA DIX Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth. ANTHONY TROLLOPE At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings... AYN RAND Jude had promised me that the money and the fame wouldn’t change him, and he’d been right. He st... NICOLE WILLIAMS He was like, 'Big G, what up? Who you walking with?' ... I said, 'Nobody. I'm just sightseeing.' He... GREG ODEN When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A... GAVIN DEGRAW He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. H... KIM EDWARDS My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done a... CARLOS GOMEZ His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both o... C.S. LEWIS He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I called out his name. I was like, Dre, Dre! A lady rode by in a green car, and she was like, he up ... ERICA SMITH God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poiso... JOHN PIPER He that has neither fools, whores nor beggars among his kindred, is the son of a thunder-gust BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. FRANCOIS MITTERRAND He drank deeply from his orange juice - really drank to savor it so that for a minute or two nothing... JEFF VANDERMEER John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he... ERIC IDLE An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices hims... AYN RAND Lloyd was a great friend, and he died too soon. TOM FOLEY My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go any... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I once asked him why he smoked the world's most expensive cigarette, and he told me it was because h... K.H. KOEHLER Because John is being John, people don't see his intensity. He wants to be a leader on this team. No... TONY AGNONE John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct. FAY VINCENT I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gift... GUSTAV MAHLER He died sober. He died clean for the rest of his life. He ended his life the way we wanted him to be... WALLIS HUTCHKO Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it w... DON JORDAN Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth b... THOMAS JEFFERSON When you feel strapped and are living from paycheck to paycheck, saving money for anything - particu... BETH KOBLINER Sir John was an excellent Commissioner and I was proud he invited me to speak at a number of his far... DAVID BLUNKETT He could neither read faces nor books properly, because since childhood he was always on Facebook DR HITESH C SHETH A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to. PETER JACKSON Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them JEAN DE LA FONTAINE His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was. TARJEI VESAAS It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything wort... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pe... EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What you saw is what you got, ... He didn't have a stage persona. He was a very honest, open guy and... JOHN DENVER The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a ... RUDY GIULIANI Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on... WILLIAM GOLDING He was great in the leadership field. He understood the game early on. It was so impressive. He was ... DAN HARRIS The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd:
Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.
His preac... JOHN DRYDEN It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. LUCRETIUS Living aboard one's sailboat and having neither house nor vehicle nor job, and needing none, would b... MATTHEW GOLDMAN [Early on, he repeated a famous line from his first flight --] Zero-G and I feel fine ... Godspeed, ... SCOTT CARPENTER He was shot in his head and he died instantly. YOGESH BHATTARAI From my understanding, he died in his brother's arms. He was still breathing. He said that he said, ... CLARA WARD It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was reje... BEN GAZZARA Call Coleman: He'll tell you he smoked the ball, ... It was a dandy! He couldn't have thrown it in a... BOBBY BROWN There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very ... SONNY ROLLINS A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest... MARVIN SAPP Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground. LUDOVICO ARIOSTO The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speak... FRANCIS DE SALES It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected... BEN GAZZARA I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was abo... CORMAC MCCARTHY But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved his respectabilit... STEPHEN CRANE He ran a great race that day. He just kind of went along head and head to the lead, and at the head ... BOB HOLTHUS When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin. GEORGE HERBERT Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. SALLUST When he was a younger man, Jimmy used to go in for a few beers. He used to tease me because I never ... JOHN TURNER It's based on an undercover case John worked probably four or five years ago that led him to Philade... JOE PISTONE Somebody stole our press box headphones for football (this past fall). I didn't have money to buy th... LOUIE GOLDEN For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to grea... JOSS SHELDON Beautiful things happen in your life,if you distance yourself from all the negative things. DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny t... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Admittedly, he was surrounded by a (great) cast. Well, now he's got a lesser cast and he went out an... JERRY JONES John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'... MAUREEN O'HARA
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I can't help it. Ted Koppel was my first crush when I was three.... DREW BARRYMORE I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best p... DREW BARRYMORE God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided fo... DREW BARRYMORE I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect. DREW BARRYMORE There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to ge... DREW BARRYMORE Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage. DREW BARRYMORE I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day. DREW BARRYMORE Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. DREW BARRYMORE There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. DREW BARRYMORE I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic. DREW BARRYMORE I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't kno... DREW BARRYMORE I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it. DREW BARRYMORE I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't. DREW BARRYMORE Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p... ETHEL BARRYMORE My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the wor... DREW BARRYMORE If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day ... DREW BARRYMORE It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I w... DREW BARRYMORE I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generall... DREW BARRYMORE I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not m... DREW BARRYMORE I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pub... DREW BARRYMORE I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to se... DREW BARRYMORE I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for... DREW BARRYMORE A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? - Then I shall build you wings. DREW BARRYMORE Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p... ETHEL BARRYMORE At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navi... BARRYMORE TEBBS My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled. DREW BARRYMORE I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm. DREW BARRYMORE The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What... DREW BARRYMORE Internet does not equal sodium pentothal. DREW BARRYMORE Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to h... DREW BARRYMORE