Wells Quotes - Page 38

• I put a flower in someone's locker when I was 15 years old. This girl, called Maria. Maybe I was 14. She actually thought it was from someone else, and the other guy claimed it as well, which was just great.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Flower, Years

  "Q&A: Robert Pattinson on 'Twilight: New Moon'". Interview with Brandy McDonnell, newsok.com. November 24, 2009.

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• They pushed us into the fight to defund Obamacare and shut down the government. And the day before the government reopened, one of these groups said, 'Well, we never thought it would work.' Are you kidding me?!

  John Boehner

  Memorable, Fighting, Government

  "Ted Cruz 'fixes' Obama" by Lauren Ashburn, www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2013.

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• Jealousy in the air tonight, I could tell. I will never understand that but oh well.

  Drake

  Hater, Air, Tonight

  Song: The Language

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• The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Christian, Men, Feminist

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• We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else. Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than other women who think: Oh, goodness, well, if I let the lid off, where would we be?

  Claire Messud

  Thinking, People, Scary

  "Unacceptable Anger From 'The Woman Upstairs'". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. May 19, 2013.

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• On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

  Corey Taylor

  Hero, Memorable, Unique

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• Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.

  William Faulkner

  Memorable, Airports, Perfection

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• Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, War, Believe

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• I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Faces, Painting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [150]

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• I wish you well and so I take my leave,
  I Pray you know me when we meet again.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Wish, Praying

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.184

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• Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Business, Intelligent

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

  Seth Klarman

  Intelligent, Discipline, Risk

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• I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Friendship, Dog, Pet

  "Loyal to the end... and beyond", www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2003.

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• Well, some people create their own opportunities; others go where opportunities are the greatest; others fail to recognize opportunity when they are face to face with it.

  Walter Chrysler

  Opportunity, People, Faces

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• Reince has produced a fully funded, superbly staffed and technologically advanced strategy to position the GOP to win in '14 and '16, and he has done so via an inclusive outreach to all branches of the party while staying out of the bunker and in the MSM on a 24/7 basis. The Republicans cannot ask for more from the RNC than they have gotten and the political battlefield is as well prepared as it has been since 2004 as a result.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Party, Winning, Opportunity

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• They wanna see me pick back up, well where'd I leave it at?

  Drake

  Bragging, Picks

  "Song: "Headlines" ("Take Care")". August 9, 2011.

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• I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this to a group of kids and a boy said, "Ah, no, that's disgusting." And I said, "Well, I hadn't used the sick bag."

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Airplane, Character

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• When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Trying, Juggernaut

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• Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

  Stephen King

  Art, Writing, Crafts

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

  Gerald Brenan

  Writing, Somewhere Else, Pages

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• The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted.

  Harlan Ellison

  Meaningful, Writing, Reality

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• The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.

  David Guterson

  Writing, Advice, Consuming

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• I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, People, Use

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.64, Macmillan

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• He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Writing, Men

  'To all gentlemen and yeomen of England' in 'Toxophilus' (1545)

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• Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

  Jonathan Swift

  Conceited, Well Said, Ifs

  'Polite Conversation' (1738) dialogue 2

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