Wilkie Collins Quotes

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Wilkie Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 8, 1824 - September 23, 1889

Topics

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I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Jessica Stroup

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When I was a little girl, there was this unbelievably cool female bus driver who'd work near us. I remember thinking I'd like to be her when I grew up.

Maxine Peake

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If you're a New Yorker, there are two things that are most important: a car and a washer and dryer. Literally everyone else in America has those things! It's so weird to them that these are our luxuries. You can eat at Per Se every night, but I don't have a car or washer and dryer!

Michael Bastian

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Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

John W. Rogers, Jr.

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I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

Siri Hustvedt

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The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Simon Newcomb

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Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Rocco Buttiglione

SinSayRightPriests

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

Roz Chast

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No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.

Johnny Marr

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I've been telling people 'I'm going to go to California, and I'm going to be a big star' since the womb, but lately it was immediately followed by, 'Would you like soup or salad with that?'

Diane Ruggiero

PeopleSoupYouGoSaladCalifornia

Working at Uber, I see opportunity and potential.

Bozoma Saint John

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Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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