There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
John James Ingalls
Recitation: by Male by Female
I enjoy what was called 'swotting' in my day.
Melvyn Bragg
DayEnjoy
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
Max Stirner
FreedomManFreeGiftSelfFall
I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.
Sue Townsend
GlassesEyeEndI CanKindLiving
I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.
Trenton Lee Stewart
MindSocietyThinkKindMysterious
I don't eat pork or beef. I cut that out when my father passed away about 20 years ago. I wanted to modify my diet because he passed away from diabetes. And, you know, it's very hereditary.
Tony Cardenas
FatherDietYouDiabetesKnowEat
I'm quite sarcastic, and I'm funny, but not kind of funny. It's a weird funny, and some people don't get me, and some people do.
Millie Bobby Brown
FunnyPeopleMeWeirdKindGet
Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it's like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in.
Derek Walcott
WaterHabitYourselfStandDoingGo
When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave - they say, 'Well, how do I get to do what you do?'... And I say, 'Well, you have to start out by being a failed piano major.' And my point to them is don't try to have a 10-year plan. Find the next thing that interests you and follow that.
Condoleezza Rice
MyselfStartThinkPlanYouFind
I think I'm basically a liberal Conservative - I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we're going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.
Boris Johnson
LiveBusinessFreeBelieveThink
I say what I think and I think what I say.
Brigitte Bardot
ThinkSayI Think
In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.
Ariel Gore
MarriageBestExperienceMomentsHad
Sometimes I wish I could just go back to Florida and, like, date my home-town boyfriend. It's really frustrating whenever I can't go and do something because I know it's going to be on the internet.
Ashley Greene
InternetWishBackKnowSometimes
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