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Queen Elizabeth II Quotes

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

Queen Elizabeth II

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: royalty
Nationality: english
Birth: April 21, 1926

Topics

Time Service Together Christmas Will

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

Work Day Job Waiting People Writing

The Koch brothers are spending more money against me than I've been able to raise.

Money Me More Against Been Able

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

Food Men Lie Man Risks Wolves

In the postwar period, Americans turned away from quality as the principal goal of manufacturing and made cost the principal goal. Japanese, restructuring their companies, made exactly the opposite decision.

Michael Crichton

Decision Quality Goal Principal Cost

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

Metta World Peace

People Learn You Know Others Room

They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines and reproduced them on the keyboard above richly upholstered counterpoint; Debussy somehow preserved vibrations in the air, blending their ephemeral magic into music that reaches far back into deep memory.

Music Memory Singing Deep Magic Way

Writing novels is the most exciting.

Writing Exciting Most Novels

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Ideas Wishes He Mould Any

Gratitude is one of the greatest gifts we can give. And it's not a gift we often give to children. We expect it of them, but we don't necessarily give it back.

Gratitude Children Gift Back Expect

There's been intelligence that terrorists would look to programs such as the visa waiver program to exploit.

Intelligence Look Been Would Visa

I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder.

Paris Always Shoulder Going Working

Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

Experience War People You Go Human

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