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Jack London Quotes

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916

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Space Me Glow Permanent Planet Atom

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Fear Looking Thinking Find Want See

When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well.

People Think Vote Will Leave Well

Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

Best Fun You Loving Goal Play

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Christian Civil Rights Office Right

If it's truly a passion, and it's truly something you believe in, then you need to do it.

Passion Believe You Need Something

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Alone Solitude Feeling Infinite Felt

I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.

Best Small Long Result Achieve Turn

Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.

Snow Light Dance Chance Ice New

I did everything, I used to be a drag queen, I used to be a stripper.

Queen Everything Drag Used Did

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

Poetry Door Dangerous Write Bedroom

I like silence. Aesthetically, I feel strangled by the fast cutting and a wall of sound. And I think showing black people thinking onscreen is radical.

Silence People Black Think Thinking

Much as I disliked the un-American idea of marrying a lady with a dowry, I must admit that little Mrs. Godfrey's little private income put everything in a faintly different light.

Preston Sturges

Light Lady Admit Everything Little

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