I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
Anna Quindlen
Recitation: by Male by Female
Writing is more important than being a writer.
Jesse Andrews
WritingImportantMoreBeingWriter
As I say, 'Every tackle's nightmare is third and long.'
Andrew Whitworth
LongSayNightmareTackleThird
'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
Jeff Hawkins
WorkFearFutureLiveSchoolWorry
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Jean Rostand
GodManAssassinConquerorEverybody
I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you're pandering or something.
Amy Chozick
ReligionThinkYouToo MuchBecome
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
Simon Callow
MotherTeacherVisionCollegeMe
I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good.
Master P
LifeGoodPeopleStartThinkChurch
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
Jonas Salk
DreamsNightmaresBecauseConquered
Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.
Chris Ofili
WorkMeThinkChangesWithinSharp
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
Augustus Hare
LoveGodChildrenMenParentsLoved
Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.
Arthur Ransome
SorryChanceYouGrab
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.
William Standish Knowles
SchoolCollegeYearGoYoungSenior
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