Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
Mahalia Jackson
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.
Joan Collins
AgePeopleNewKnowWhyMean
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke
MenInformationKnowAskLittleOwn
The intention that naturally exists: 'My intention is to get done with this commute.' So I've just doomed myself to an hour of discomfort, because my intention will not be met until I get out of the car.
Jeff Kober
CarMyselfIntentionDoneWillOut
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.
Tom Stoppard
HappyWritingLeavingMatterMean
I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.
Mohamed ElBaradei
PeopleMeSayingYouGoWant
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
Deborah Harkness
SciencePeopleResearchWritingMore
I would love to act. I get to do it in three and a half minutes in a video on a three-day shoot, which is fun.
Brendon Urie
LoveFunThreeActShootHalf
In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy.
Ari Graynor
FunnyGirlGreatHumorPersonality
I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
Anthony Bourdain
LoveNew YorkNewComfortingGuy
I was No. 11 because my mom played basketball in college and was always No. 22. I just cut it in half, and I kept that. I've been No. 11 most of my life, and in college, I was No. 22.
Ali Krieger
LifeCollegeMomBasketballMy Life
Rarely do you meet an American who knows his Wordsworth.
Alice Eve
AmericanYouMeetWhoKnowsHis
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
NothingBeenFasterThanLaurels
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