William Hamilton Maxwell Quotes

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

William Hamilton Maxwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: 1792 - 1850

Topics

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At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

Joely Fisher

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I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.

Jenny Offill

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I want all of my films to be grounded in reality, and I think 'Midnight Special' is the most grounded film I've ever made, in spite of its genre.

Jeff Nichols

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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

Jean Kerr

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It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That, too, is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on.

Tommy Lee Jones

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The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.

Robert Carlyle

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As a black man, so often you grow up suppressing your emotions and sensitivity.

Russell Hornsby

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Though I did M.Sc. from Dharamshala, I was always attracted towards music.

Mohit Chauhan

MusicAlwaysThoughDidAttracted

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.

Mitch Kapor

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I'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.

Donny Osmond

TiredSometimesGetLikeEverybody

I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.

Christopher Alexander

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My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

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