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J.M. Synge

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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
J. M. SYNGE In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS 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 In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON 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 A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. P...
MARGARET ATWOOD Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAY History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
QUINTILIAN Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Speech technology is not perfect, not by a long shot. The fact is, speech recognizers are not as goo...
JANET BAKER People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY Across the board, a low-flavored soybean would be good for everybody.
PAUL LANG But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this b...
STEVE JOBS We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation.
ALAN ABRAMOWITZ Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as e...
THOMAS CARLYLE [While digital speech is sounding better, it still has a way to go, industry experts acknowledge.] S...
JANET BAKER And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS One should not treat investors or a person who has set up an industry and is a successful businessma...
SHARAD PAWAR Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
RONALD REAGAN There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm ...
HEATH LEDGER I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.
KEVIN SYSTROM Your smile is your best speech
SOTONYE ANGA Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audie...
ROHIT SHETTY I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI As it would be no good if we only insist on our opinions, the American side should also fully consid...
FUKUSHIRO NUKAGA Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as E...
THOMAS CARLYLE Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as...
THOMAS CARLYLE Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as...
THOMAS CARLYLE As good as a play.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) As good as a play.
GEORGE CHAPMAN Every one should try to be good role model . As a role model they have special burden to perform wel...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a vi...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE WILL Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE WILL Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE F. WILL Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they h...
H. G. WELLS Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books.
ANUJ SOMANY Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th...
APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let us endeavor to have a good name,for in so doing we are sowing good seeds,that will one day be ha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name can open ways for your great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even if other things remains unspoken in your life,a good name will continually speak for you, even ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
DONALD TRUMP It was a good pitch - a great cricket wicket. It should have been an after-tea day-four game, really...
DARREN LEHMANN First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions...
SAINT BASIL Not as long as they play, and they play with a passion. It's a team thing, too, its not just about o...
JAMES BELL Sour as a green apple
PROVERB We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the s...
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL I hit a couple in a row and I felt really good, once you hit a couple of shots everything else in yo...
MIKE GANSEY Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung an...
J.M. SYNGE In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist ...
J.M. SYNGE I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
J.M. SYNGE A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned.
J.M. SYNGE The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but see...
J.M. SYNGE As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J.M. SYNGE While it is a good thing that Apple is taking steps to protect its margins, we believe that Apple di...
DANIEL KUNSTLER “Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret an...
CARLOS CASTANEDA I know as long as I continue to play how I can play that I'll be OK, ... No one's ever safe. I know ...
CHARLIE ADAMS The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community th...
IQBAL SACRANIE I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of...
SHERMAN ALEXIE As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
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J.M. COETZEE It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.
J.M. BARRIE He was never more sinister than when he was most polite...
J.M. BARRIE For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange...
J.M. BARRIE She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was li...
J.M. BARRIE If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colo...
J.M. BARRIE There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was...
J.M. BARRIE The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp...
J.M. RICHARDS Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything...
J.M. SULLIVAN With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to...
J.M. COETZEE Who are you?” he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. “I told ...
J.M. RICHARDS I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again...
J.M. RICHARDS It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di...
J.M. RICHARDS The only ghosts, I believe, who creep into this world, are dead
young mothers, returned to see...
J.M. BARRIE Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE Surely a spirited old lady may be the prettiest sight in the world.
J.M. BARRIE It is idle to attempt to overtake a pretty young woman carrying pork chops. I was now determined to ...
J.M. BARRIE When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in yo...
J.M. BARRIE Life and death, the child and the mother, are ever meeting as the one draws into harbour and the oth...
J.M. BARRIE It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not ...
J.M. BARRIE Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; ...
J.M. BARRIE Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv is...
J.M. COETZEE Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der...
J.M. COETZEE she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. DARHOWER You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But...
J.M. DARHOWER The sun is setting, the sky is a tumult of oranges, reds and violets.
J.M. COETZEE I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as st...
J.M. COETZEE Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o...
J.M. LEDGARD From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
J.M. COETZEE The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
J.M. BARRIE When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ...
J.M. DARHOWER He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos...
J.M. DARHOWER He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb...
J.M. DARHOWER Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
J.M. BARRIE