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Frances Burney Quotes

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: June 13, 1752 - January 6, 1840

Topics

Happiness Travel Building Looking

There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need.

Time Help You Important More Need

Obviously, race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that. Unless it is talked about constantly, it's not going to get better... people have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people, because we're comfortable. We still have no clue what being born white means.

People Elephant Better Uncomfortable

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Me Political Never Satire Surface

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Robert B. Laughlin

Food School Clothes Table Over Roof

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Life Maturity People City Action

When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.

Money Wrong More System Something

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

Christina Ricci

Mom Real Something Knows

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

Movies Vampire Sense Favorite Dread

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

Arthur Phillips

Life Great Art Me Thinking Better

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

Life Good Me Rest Good Life Long

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Great Time Wise Envy Burden Aim

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

Pervez Musharraf

Politics I Am Think Stand Election

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