Peter Lewis Allen Quotes

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

Peter Lewis Allen

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FearBetterNewSometimesSeriously

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'

Jewel

NatureFearYouThingsApproach

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

Anna Deavere Smith

PeopleThinkWayArtsGoingMost

There should not be a micro-managing of terminology with the Library of Congress.

Tom Graves

LibraryCongressShouldTerminology

I have even begun to think that I am caring for Argentina and Chile perhaps more than Argentines and Chileans. I feel like I'm sort of a de facto citizen, because I am looking after their national patrimony - which is the land - very carefully.

Douglas Tompkins

I AmCaringLookingThinkFeelLand

My version of a good role model is everything that I have strived to become over the years, as I have a deep desire to live an honest life and give relentlessly and openly to people who look up to me.

Dove Cameron

LifeGoodLivePeopleMeDeep

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.

Donna Leon

MoralProfoundSuspicionMostThan

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

Dee Brown

BookFeelYouBackDoneEverything

I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.

Christie Hefner

WorkPeopleWhoPercentGuess

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

Connie Francis

DayMeSpeakGrandmotherSheJust

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

William Wordsworth

MusicHeartLongHillMoreUp

The appetite starts with the eye.

Sherry Yard

EyeStartsAppetite

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.

Shah Rukh Khan

WomanManLiteraturePerfectIndia

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