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Charles de Lint Quotes

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Charles de Lint

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 22, 1951

Topics

World Sight See Exist Only Wonders

Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

Leadership Leader Fighting Choice

I'm able to think more clearly when I don't have clutter and stuff around.

Think More Clearly Clutter Stuff

At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.

Perfection Fashion Expectations Find

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Friendship Friend Value Opinion Once

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.

Truth People Me Book Understand

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

Work Best Body Career Done Build

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

World Profit Run More Loose Motive

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

Mary Tyler Moore

Way Turn Out Some Did Characters

I never went to any Tea Party meetings, although I am fiscally very much in like mind, and grateful for and appreciative of the support of anybody, no matter what group they might be part of.

Grateful I Am Tea Support Mind

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

Book Blues Play Him Behind Joe

My look is relaxed, and while I love fashion, I don't obsess about it. I don't have set rules when it comes to dressing, and I don't mind where my clothes are from.

Love Mind Fashion Clothes Look Set

I like to think I'm a good mechanic for the company. 'Oh well, we sprung a leak? Call Ambrose; throw him in there.' I like that because I think it has really upped my value with the company, and I think that they realize nowadays, too, another Dean Ambrose isn't going to walk through the door anytime soon - or ever.

Good Walk Value Door Think Mechanic

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