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James Thurber Quotes

James Thurber quote: "There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that..."

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

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Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body. Amber Benson
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory means good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been... C. S. Lewis
Henry James quote: "The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was in having a..."
The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was in having a mind of her own at all. Henry James
I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape. Andy Griffith
I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing. Penelope Cruz
Carol Burnett quote: "Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. Carol Burnett
...if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness. Dean Koontz
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone. Thornton Wilder
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war. George S. Patton
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies. Nigella Lawson
Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage. Jodi Picoult
When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down. Mike Krzyzewski
Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything. Michael Moorer
Abu Bakar Bashir quote: "The only model to follow is pure Islam."
The only model to follow is pure Islam. Abu Bakar Bashir