No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Recitation: by Male by Female
Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.
Joan Chen
EnoughPovertyPoorNeverMeatRice
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and is heard but a few yards. It is only upon dry, seasoned timber, freed of its bark, that he beats his reveille to spring and wooes his mate.
John Burroughs
FoodSpringDeadHiddenSearching
'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does.
John Logan
FreeLookI CanNothingMessUp
If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.
Jeff Rich
SilenceYouNiceSayDeadAnything
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.
Tom Vilsack
PeopleAmericaPovertySometimes
I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.
Loretta Lynn
PeopleMeBelieveBornI Believe
Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.
Christopher Judge
OpportunitySleepLearnYouCraft
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
Chauncey Wright
ScienceMenProgressGeniusRather
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood
ChangeBetterHandsYouSometimes
I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.
Anne Michaels
MyselfReadingI CanNaiveOutPure
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
Richard MacDonald
ArtLegacySellingCreatingWill
A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly.
Nobu Matsuhisa
ChefFishSushiFreshSpot
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