Jim Crace Quotes

As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.

Jim Crace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 1, 1946

Topics

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In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

Jidenna

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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Jesse Jackson

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When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

Andrew Young

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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Moliere

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The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.

Lu Wei

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Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

Louis Farrakhan

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There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.

Jason Segel

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To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

Jonathan Ive

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In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

Diane Garnick

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You've just got to earn my respect.

Draymond Green

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Good grooming is integral and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.

Daymond John

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