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J. M. Barrie Quotes

J. M. Barrie quote: "To live will be an awfully big adventure."

To live will be an awfully big adventure.

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You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes. Gustave Flaubert
I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector. Dick Cheney
Napoleon Bonaparte quote: "You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them."
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them. Napoleon Bonaparte
Betty Smith quote: "If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep..."
If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep this moment always. Betty Smith
Mark Twain quote: "Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog..."
Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog it is to hard to read. Mark Twain
Kathy Acker quote: "I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff."
I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff. Kathy Acker
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing. Annie Dillard
Budd Schulberg quote: "I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more..."
I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people. Budd Schulberg
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. Plato
Robert Iler quote: "I actually just started home schooling. And it is great."
I actually just started home schooling. And it is great. Robert Iler
Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. Morgan Freeman
Gertrude Stein quote: "You are all a lost generation."
You are all a lost generation. Gertrude Stein
This isn't about love and hate," Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their child. They just want the child tosleep. They just want to dominate. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way. The masochist bullies the sadist intoaction. The most passive person is actually an aggressor. Chuck Palahniuk
I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not. Philip Larkin
I love getting dressed up for red carpet events and having my hair and makeup done professionally - that definitely helps with nerves of going down the red carpet. Jessica Ennis