It was an annoying name to have. People tended to spell in Mangus, rhymes with Angus. I always corrected them: No, it's Magnus, rhymes with swagness. At which point they would stare at me blankly.
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Related Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't... KRISTEN SCHAAL hi my name is luke, it rhymes with puke! MARY AMATO I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. SAUL WILLIAMS I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich. BARBARA BUSH People listen to me because I can put together stories and rhymes. I'm no guitarist like Slash. MIKE EVANS When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey... LINUS TORVALDS No more rhymes now - I mean it ! Anybody want a peanut. THE PRINCESS BRIDE The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is str... JAMES FENTON History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes MARK TWAIN I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.' DEMETRI MARTIN Is he laughing with you or at you? If you have to ask then likely your being laughed at BRENT M. JONES When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and ... LINUS TORVALDS Friends are like rappers, they go with anything that rhymes with their words. KARIM FDHILA My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had n... ALAN GARNER Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have ... JIM BUTCHER I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at a... ALAIN DE BOTTON I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so ... KEAHU KAHUANUI No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH! WILLIAM GOLDMAN I must mention again it was gorgeous weather, / Rhymes are so scarce in this world of ours. C. S. CALVERLEY I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have ... AYNSLEY DUNBAR When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they w... KHLOE KARDASHIAN I build rhymes like an architect/ Why you sniff more lines than Etch A Sketch/ SEAN CROSBY The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung o... WIZ KHALIFA I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insur... AMERICA FERRERA Chubi, rhymes with booby, which you don't have, or doodie, which your face looks like," she said smu... KIM HARRISON Hello lamp post, what ya knowin'? I come to watch your flowers growin'. Ain't you got no rhymes for ... PAUL SIMON I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love... MAREN MORRIS I putted like (a golf term that rhymes with 'hit' and means, um, not good) and I hit the driver ever... DAN OLSEN If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if... JOHN CLEESE I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hend... ITALO CALVINO Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an anno... JIM BUTCHER I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. TRE COOL My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes. J. COLE I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly inf... BOBBY BOWDEN No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: JOHN KEATS I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect the... KRISTEN SCHAAL He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I exp... SARAH DESSEN The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to l... DYLAN THOMAS I was 11 and always watched TV and cartoons and I would always kind of point at the cartoons and say... BRECKIN MEYER I feel almost sad whenever I see a woman stare blankly into space. LORETTA YOUNG I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudde... TAYLOR SWIFT A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be ... EMINEM People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, ... MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER I would hope they have interest in me -- as I do in them. It's nice to hear [his name being mentione... ART HOWE There was some pushing and shoving going on. We believe that Rhymes was there with his bodyguard Mr.... RAY KELLY A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings. DEJAN STOJANOVIC Nursery rhymes are cheap. They don't cost like CDs and movies. You can get them second-hand, you can... LAURIE LAPAN I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and deat... EMMA THOMPSON I like Clary," he said simply. "She always tries to do what's right, and she never lets anyone else ... CASSANDRA CLARE I have some director friends who have said that they don't really like working with actors - directo... BRUCE BERESFORD My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a cr... HANNAH KENT It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people an... BINYAVANGA WAINAINA Youth is fantastic and aging is difficult but youthful doesn’t always mean useful and age rhymes w... KEN O. ELDIB Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. ... LOUIS MACNEICE My computer terminal whistles at me: YOU HAVE MAIL. No shit, Sherlock, I always have mail. It's an e... CHARLES STROSS At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever ... SEAN PARKER When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head co... ALYSHA SPEER I asked him why he gave me a girl's name, ... He told me it was the proper way to spell it. But no o... JOHN MADDEN Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean sa... ALAN BRENNERT History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. WILL ROGERS Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't unde... CASSANDRA CLARE I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York. JASON MITCHELL People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don'... KIM HARRISON If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844. JAMES HALLIWELL Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes
And interchanged love tokens with my child;
T... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls wi... JOSIE LOREN I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that... NATURI NAUGHTON In some ways, over the last 20 or 30 years, we've avoided nursery rhymes because … they're not pol... LAURIE LAPAN as pared as nursery rhymes. RAY DAVIES But who forgives the senior's ceaseless verse, / Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse? LORD BYRON In some ways, over the last 20 or 30 years, we've avoided nursery rhymes because
they're not poli... LAURIE LAPAN If there was no brain damage, I would have expected him to wake up at this point. DR. JOHN MARTIN When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the... PRINCESS EUGENIE OF YORK I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if... COLIN HAY When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim... JOHNNY RAMONE I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing... DAVID GALLAGHER I feel so proud. I got mad [at the players]. I was happy with them. I cursed them -- and they still ... OZZIE GUILLEN Ima Bloodsucking Carnivorous extraterestrial
my rhymes are tight
yours in development like an embryo NOBLE DA GENIUS At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my ow... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it. CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Nilipozaliwa nilipendwa na kuogopwa, watu walicheza na mimi lakini mimi sikucheza nao. Niliwapenda. SIMON MASHALLA That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it w... ICE-T At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet. OLIVIA WILDE I have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, b... TESS GERRITSEN Annoying people with no class at all should stay far away from computers! VIANKA VAN BOKKEM I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for... Q-TIP As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ... TAYLOR WILSON I wasn't very happy with the existing literature. They tended to look at the Earth as a cube. When p... GERHARD WEINBERG I don't know where they (tabloids) come up with these things. One week, they have me going out with ... HALLE BERRY I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON I would love to work with Julia Roberts at some point. BRAD GORESKI You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a ... NEIL GAIMAN I always considered them true philanthropists in that name recognition was of no importance to them. TERRY JONES And I could never run out of my subject matter - I only exercise my rhymes in times when the subject... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I was there and Governor Riley walked by and then a little later sent for me. He spent about 10 minu... TIMOTHY BURGESS People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to s... NANCY KERRIGAN When I was 14 years old, I was with my parents at a restaurant. Some people came in and said, 'W... NORA ARNEZEDER I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me - it was pink and sparkly at the time... KELSEA BALLERINI Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to ... GEORGE FORMBY
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RICK RIORDAN Синдром на Дефицит на Вниманието (СДВ) RICK RIORDAN You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together. RICK RIORDAN then things got even stranger. Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute befo... RICK RIORDAN There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties... RICK RIORDAN Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” ... RICK RIORDAN Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn... RICK RIORDAN Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an ey... RICK RIORDAN Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control tr... RICK RIORDAN Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul! RICK RIORDAN In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame ... RICK RIORDAN THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. "That's AGAINST THE RULES!" Polybotes frowned, obviously confused t... RICK RIORDAN Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes. RICK RIORDAN Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all. RICK RIORDAN If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. RICK RIORDAN She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish. RICK RIORDAN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers ... RICK RIORDAN Humans see what they want to see. RICK RIORDAN Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. RICK RIORDAN Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, wh... RICK RIORDAN You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought. RICK RIORDAN This is so cool!" Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. "Is this really the sun? I th... RICK RIORDAN Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called i... RICK RIORDAN I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret. RICK RIORDAN For a long time,’ Nico said, ‘I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know.’ Percy looked a... RICK RIORDAN He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace.... RICK RIORDAN Good. So you may be dense, but you’re not an idiot.’ ‘How can you even talk to me like t... RICK RIORDAN Nico," I said at last, "shouldn't you be sitting at the Hades table?" He shrugged. "Techn... RICK RIORDAN Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair. RICK RIORDAN With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later. RICK RIORDAN Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile.... RICK RIORDAN Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friend... RICK RIORDAN Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wro... RICK RIORDAN What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apol... RICK RIORDAN Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind... RICK RIORDAN Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die. RICK RIORDAN I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue pla... RICK RIORDAN Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand... RICK RIORDAN Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga... RICK RIORDAN She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doin... RICK RIORDAN The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive. RICK RIORDAN How did you die?" "We er....drowned in a bathtub." "All three of you?" "It was a big ... RICK RIORDAN Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between... RICK RIORDAN Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs a... RICK RIORDAN Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face. RICK RIORDAN I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Tita... RICK RIORDAN We’ve arrived,” Leo announced. “Time to Split.” Frank groaned. “Can we leave Valdez i... RICK RIORDAN Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Perc... RICK RIORDAN You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again! RICK RIORDAN Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest. RICK RIORDAN Annabeth?” Percy said again. “You’re planning something. You’ve got that I’m-planning-s... RICK RIORDAN