What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?
John Dos Passos
Recitation: by Male by Female
I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment that makes them think.
Jim Caviezel
HopeMomentI AmPeopleBetterMore
Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.
John Byrne
Getting OlderYouStopNothingBus
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
John Grisham
GoodGreatMyselfI AmWritingHard
Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.
Jennie Finch
LifeMeSweetHusbandPersonKind
Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis.
Melvyn Bragg
PoetryComedyCrisisBecomeNever
There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.
Michael Cimino
PastNeedUpDigAnalyze
I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has exactly that attitude.
Stephane Rolland
LoveAttitudeWomanDressHappyShe
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.
Steven Pinker
TimeJobResearchWritingBookRest
Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.
Steve Martin
TodayDressPeopleThinkBetter
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.
Robert E. Lee
FriendManSacrificeYouWrongKeep
My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.
Miranda Hart
FamilyWindThinkBreadWillNever
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.
Julia Glass
PassionBestSurviveGoMattersOwn
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