Richard Jefferies Quotes

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.

Richard Jefferies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.

John Podhoretz

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I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

Sonakshi Sinha

WorkI AmMeEnjoyYouSilent

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Rod Stewart

MyselfKingPeopleDoubtOthersHis

I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.

Mary Steenburgen

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I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.

Martine Syms

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We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

Lisa Murkowski

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It will have to be a universal movement, and that will never be... because the big-league game, as it is now, is overrun with Southern blood. These fellows would have to stop at the same hotels, eat in the same dining rooms, and sleep in the same train compartments with the colored players. There'd be trouble for sure.

Jud Wilson

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Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Chris Lowe

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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Arthur Erickson

FocusSpaceDesignYouNeverAgain

Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.

Alice Oswald

CourageMenPeopleLoseFarmers

We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.

Sharan Burrow

KnowInvestmentBuildInfrastructure

Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

Noreena Hertz

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