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CHARLES OWENS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS ...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!
OSCAR WILDE ON HIS DEATHBED No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer...
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VING RHAMES I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
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JIM HUBBARD My hat goes off to him. He was playing in his fourth game in five days yet showed no signs of it.
DAVE PUGLIESE Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'? (when aske...
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LON KRUGER No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
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MANUEL VILLEGAS When you work on a Jerry Bruckheimer film, you can be sure of two things: no production value will b...
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MARY GARDEN Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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BERT BRANDENBURG Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news...
KARA SWISHER There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
KEN OLSEN There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
JEFF RASKIN He basically lives and dies with (Wilkerson). He's on the computer every night checking his scores.
GREG MILLER We would like to thank Jerry for his contributions and wish him the best in his future endeavors,
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SAM PERLOZZO The search took him years working on his old Apple Macintosh computer to find everyone. It became hi...
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EMIL ZATOPEK An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in hi...
ANITA BHOGLE I am absolutely going to make sure Jerry gets his ring back.
DOUG ALLEN You burnt my little house, didn't you?"--Louis to Lestat "Can you blame me?" "Besides, I was human w...
ANNE RICE Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.
BARBARA DEMICK Hugh is now playing a game on his mobile phone. His greasy fat fingers with bitten down nails surpri...
GLENN HAYBITTLE A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in hi...
ANITA BHOGLE This guy spent his early days watching his father not have to lift a thumb in the clubhouse. He gets...
JEFF PEARLMAN The life most pleasing to God, is that which is spent in most usefulness to our fellow-creatures. A ...
S. M. M'CORKLE I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in h...
P. J. O'ROURKE A materialistic and selfish mind compensates his day spent on charity with simplicity with a lavish ...
ANUJ SOMANY His tongue is now a stringless instrument; Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We've been on a good stretch. We're playing very confident right now. It's a group of seniors that r...
BOB MYERHOFF There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he kn...
MICKEY HART Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel wit...
FLOYD SKLOOT NO, I CAN’T AND I WON’T
PEYTON MANNING WHEN ASKED TO COMMENT ON HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH JIM IRSAY Peter will run at conference if he has to run on his hands.
DAVE WALKER Man has become less rational than his own objects, which now run ahead of him, so to speak, organizi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The three days in jail he's had now could be like a year for some. In jail I worry about his ability...
ROBERT HUNT He's playing with lots of confidence and no mistakes and holds his concentration all the time
JUAN CARLOS FERRERO His prostate cancer is no issue, it is completely controlled, ... There is no need to expect the imm...
ABDUL ALIM [Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween ...
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ED HARRIS The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t re...
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WILLIAM POOLE It's an honor fighting on his birthday, because of what he did for my idol, my hero, Joe Louis,
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MARC GRABOFF …it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his fa...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Isaac had spent so much of the past year with his head down, focused on the filth around him, that h...
SUSAN FANETTI Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Ze...
ALEX LIFESON Elaine: Ugh, I hate people.
Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.
JERRY SEINFELD He said he would get on the computer when he got home from work so we knew he would be on. When (pol...
CARRIE RODGERS Jack, Jerry and I had been talking about the merger for a while, ... Jerry and I would like to leave...
MASAYOSHI SON There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome,...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome,...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. We weren't sure he would graduate on some days when he was a junior. I was worried he'd come back ho...
LOU PANZANARO I'm going to take this car to (builder) Jerry Haas' shop (near St. Louis) and go through it from the...
TERRY ADAMS No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the groun...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Mr. Tools is now 85 days out and is doing extremely well, ... He's eating on his own, his nutrition ...
LAMAN GRAY Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny club...
JOHNNY THUNDERS I know how great Jerry Rice was in his prime, ... I saw it firsthand.
MIKE SHANAHAN On defense, he never let anyone around his side. He was a headache for opponents. No one ever wanted...
DICK SCHAFRATH No one can ever duplicate that. It's the first group that you spent four years with at the place whe...
LORENZO ROMAR I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]
AL BERNSTEIN I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. On her beauty pageant days
HALLE BERRY I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].
HALLE BERRY [Left with $100 in his pocket, no food or clothes other than those on his back, and no gasoline in h...
DAVID DIAZ Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more ...
CORNEL WEST A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
EMIL ZATOPEK (Jerry) and I hit it off. He's a very professional man. He was good to his word.
DAVID HUME KENNERLY Luke was the only golfer in the two days to shoot under par. His nearest competitor was the young ma...
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RACHEL VINCENT There's no question that it will hurt him and it will hurt him significantly. He's still getting the...
NORMAN ORNSTEIN It's amazing ? it looks like he's just playing catch with the mitt, even with the movement on his pi...
JUAN PIERRE His last days, a noble confrontation with death, made his life as much a work of art as his plays.
ROBERT BRUSTEIN [They were] a small group of actors in their 20s, run by a man who had experience with Peter Brook a...
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SETH SHOSTAK He's making his (3-point shots), making his pull-up shots, running the offense, playing good defense...
BOB THOMASON No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his rel...
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ROBERT GREENE Once he flew his flight, it was as if St. Louis didn't exist anymore,
HUGH SCOTT If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no g...
JASPER FFORDE He had the run of his life. Smooth and big, with landings that were on the money.
ANDREW GILBERT His growth from last year to this year, his comfort level with the offense, with what NFL defenses d...
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ALEXANDER THEROUX Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut ...
PAUL THEROUX Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers -...
PAUL THEROUX Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound...
PHYLLIS THEROUX He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.
PAUL THEROUX September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows,...
ALEXANDER THEROUX Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
PAUL THEROUX Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that ...
PHYLLIS THEROUX Offending people is a necessary and healthy act. Every time you say something that's offensive to an...
LOUIS C.K. (LOUIS SZEKELY) I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr...
LOUIS L'AMOUR What the people are within, the buildings express without.
LOUIS SULLIVAN Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!
LOUIS TOMLINSON A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
LOUIS NIZER To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
LOUIS L'AMOUR You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.&#...
LOUIS KAHN I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that r...
LOUIS TOMLINSON My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' i...
LOUIS LETERRIER I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.
LOUIS TOMLINSON You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and P...
LOUIS PASTEUR Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
LOUIS UNTERMEYER You blows who you is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down i...
LOUIS STOKES If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
LOUIS BRANDEIS Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
LOUIS L'AMOUR The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result o...
LOUIS PASTEUR If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you i...
LOUIS ZAMPERINI A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
LOUIS L'AMOUR After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but ...
LOUIS NAVELLIER I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about...
LOUIS ARAGON