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I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Clifford Geertz American Scientist

He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed.

T. E. Kalem

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

James Howell British Writer

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Tacitus Roman Historian

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

Georg Brandes Danish Critic

Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.

Shintaro Ishihara Japanese Politician

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Aubrey de Vere Irish Poet

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

Robert McChesney American Critic

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman American Poet

Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more.

Loris Malaguzzi

When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing.

Mike Hawkins

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

Alexander Payne American Director

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Robert Byrd American Politician

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Jean Anouilh French Playwright

The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one.

Casper Van Dien American Actor

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

Roger Mahony American Clergyman

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Claude Adrien Helvetius French Philosopher

We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it.

Ethan Coen American Director

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

Mark Ruffalo American Actor

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Edwidge Danticat Haitian Author