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Ada Lovelace Quotes

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852

Topics

Work I Am Effort Stand Attention

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Robert Penn Warren

Deepest Autobiography Poem Attempt

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

John Wesley Powell

Ride Walls River Rocks Know Run

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan, would sit through the night watching boxing matches and would hit the bag at every opportunity I would get.

Opportunity Night Bag Boxing Through

I think, more than anything, in times of crisis we should be shedding party labels.

Think Party Crisis More Anything

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

Michelle Shocked

Appreciation Me Think Feel You Back

I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

Know Said Why Never Prime Cut

Self-expression should not be a challenge that demands extraordinary talent but should be a right accessible to all.

Challenge Talent Right Extraordinary

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

Together War People American Down

'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of all the scene outs but especially the end of the second scene, when Williams brings a tamale vendor on stage to simply say, 'Red hot!'

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Life Love Red End My Life Play

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them.

Family Parents Baby Rest Christian

Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantanamo more or less continuously, kept awake for much of that time by loud music being blasted when he was falling asleep, doused with water and subjected to cold temperatures, kept naked and forced to perform tricks as if he were a dog.

Dog Music January Time Water Cold

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Universe Safe Up Locked Up Like

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