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Kenneth Grahame Quotes

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

Kenneth Grahame

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: March 8, 1859 - July 6, 1932

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Independence Friends You Fools Limit

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

John Astin

Me Think Important Blood True Math

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

Melinda Gates

Life Foundation More Next Planet

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

Sue Kelly

Effort Year Congress Through Act

The one thing I want to do - and I am doing - is starting my own production company, for me to produce and direct in the future. Have a bit more say and control - become the storyteller more than just the character. I want to choose the story, plant the seed, and watch it grow. I just want to have a bit more involvement.

Toni Collette

Future Character I Am Me Control

What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.

Tom Seaver

Know Important Head Get Made He

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

Tom Robbins

Equality Things Different Differently

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Mary Lambert

Life Art Myself Job Thought Loved

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

Molly Shannon

Respect Art Writing Definitely Loads

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Ludwig Bemelmans

Girl Dress Evening Dining Coat

I don't put nothing out if it's not ready.

Desiigner

Ready Nothing Out Put

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

Chino Moreno

Me Problem Opening Up Park Big

I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

Craig Ferguson

Myself Night Talking You Down Want