Richard Jefferies Quotes

A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.

Richard Jefferies

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 6, 1848 - August 14, 1887

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I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

Jimmy Kimmel

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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Jesse Jackson

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Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Joel Osteen

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In MMA, I found my calling.

Michael Bisping

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I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

Michael Ealy

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No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

Roger Ebert

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There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight up and down, and others chew side-to-side, like cows. Your oral processing habits are a physiological fingerprint.

Mary Roach

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Book awards - in America, at least - are not like the Oscars. Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like the Pulitzers, the jurors often have another goal in mind: sales. They know that the Pulitzer stamp can sell a book.

Michelle Dean

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I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

Molly Antopol

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I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

Joni Mitchell

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It's always that tricky thing with a remake, especially when it's something that's well loved. You're coming to something that has a built-in fascination, but with that comes people ready to feel disgruntled that it's being remade at all.

David Tennant

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It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.

Brittany Murphy

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