Walter Elliot Quotes

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Walter Elliot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: September 19, 1888 - January 8, 1958

Topics

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God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do - what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins.

Joe Wurzelbacher

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I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

Michael Baden

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Humor is my default mode.

John Updike

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Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried.

Robert Torricelli

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When Nina Simone first sings the title of 'Feeling Good,' her voice has been alone for thirty-nine seconds. The solitary singer: there's always something fiat lux about it. Resolute, the individual moves through the void. You know the accompaniment is coming, but the voice, all by itself, makes you care about it: form turns into feeling.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

Moby

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I really didn't want to leave the show, but I got a chance to do a movie, which meant I would have had to miss two shows, and at the time Lorne had a policy where you can't miss shows, so I left.

Jon Lovitz

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The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?

Dean Wareham

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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Clarence Darrow

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T.V. found me. I was offered jobs. It came in handy when I started having babies. Just one night's work, and then I could go home. I loved 'Surprise Surprise', but it was hard work. 'Blind Date' was a doddle by comparison.

Cilla Black

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I don't really talk too much about my personal life, but I'm happy.

Bryan Greenberg

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We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

Pope Benedict XVI

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