Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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ArtPaintingWeatherCriticFlat

I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

Jimmy Smits

PolicySomewhereBeingBetween

I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.

Jens Lekman

MyselfWriteSomethingAbout

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

John Madden

RoadEasyStreetThroughSewerGoes

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Ann Landers

LifeYouMeetClassHavingProved

Ultimately, I'm in the fitness industry. But, I've branched out from there quite a bit. I began doing consulting on writing and getting published in magazines in about 2011. Right around that time, I started doing some angel investing and looking to grow my skills and general experience outside of that.

John Romaniello

TimeFitnessExperienceWritingGrow

I love my business. I love my employees.

John Schnatter

LoveBusinessEmployeesI Love

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.

Stephen Daldry

TimeDoingYouAheadKnowingScary

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Sofia Coppola

GoodIdeasYoungMoviesEditing

The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.

Rosemary Mahoney

CalmSlowFindIslandBecomeHigh

You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

Mary Beard

GenerationYouYearsPatriarchy

Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.

Michelle Paver

WritingBookPlanYouYourEven

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

Craig Kilborn

PlanningTaxNewKnowNowPresident

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