The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle
Recitation: by Male by Female
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
HeroCalmGeniusDumbStrikeSeldom
If children are given some real content, they can feel powerful with their own understanding of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the story.
Melissa Mathison
CharacterChildrenPeopleThinkFeel
We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.
Robert J. Shiller
SpiritualEconomicsEngineeringJudge
My mom actually would not allow me to watch 'Dawson's Creek!'
Torrey DeVitto
MeMomCreekWatchWouldAllow
Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.
Ronald Graham
TimeArtSpaceSometimesPatterns
When I was a teenager, I was super-awkward. I don't think I really felt comfortable in my body or with how I looked, and people were nasty.
Rumer Willis
PeopleThinkBodyComfortableNasty
God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
Donald Knuth
GodChallengeSearchExistenceMust
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
Brigitte Bardot
I AmDirtyLeavingMediocreTownAm
My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.
Pete Hamill
FatherJobSoccerImmigrantsLost
I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
Paul Watson
PlaySayAlwaysPirateJustTV
I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.
Sheridan Smith
StageSufferStage FrightNervesLot
The learning process continues until the day you die.
Kirk Douglas
LearningDayProcessDieYouUntil
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