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Eleanor Farjeon

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NEIL GAIMAN Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get pe...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It...
THE EDGE Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European ...
THE EDGE Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basica...
THE EDGE We've always tried to do different things with the sound of the band, but with this record we've tri...
THE EDGE You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very ...
THE EDGE Most groups, I think, would have been taking their foot of the gas at this point. But we have the ex...
THE EDGE One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community,...
THE EDGE We want this record to be something that people really listen to, rather than just have in their rec...
THE EDGE A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound ...
THE EDGE Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing...
THE EDGE For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in th...
THE EDGE Any alcohol, any type of drug is not allowed on campus -- anywhere on the campus, period.
LEAH HARDESTY Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON Any rancher or landowner out there is still losing a lot of sleep worrying about looking out the win...
MATT BROCKMAN There were dozens of stones of all sizes in the small meadow. Tall stones, bigger than either of the...
NEIL GAIMAN Eleanor is more vibrant than any female icon in our own century,
JEAN LECLERC Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of ou...
CECIL FRANK POWELL It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain...
J.A. REDMERSKI The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of busi...
WILL CARLETON Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
ILONA ANDREWS Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
ILONA ANDREWS I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
STEVE MCQUEEN In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
JACKY ICKX On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bia...
WALTER CRONKITE What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will...
T.S. ELIOT I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
STEVE MCQUEEN It's not any further to park on the west side of the lot and come to the middle door than it is to p...
KATHY HULL But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slaye...
TANYA HUFF The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
C.S. LEWIS Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF Our standard rate. A doubloon a day."
It was generous. More than generous--some families would ...
ILONA ANDREWS So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activitie...
ILONA ANDREWS Any part of what was heard can be added in a conference committee. Everything is still on the table.
HENRY CURTIS Under the stars,I tried to sleep,but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability ...
JAMES LOVEGROVE I placed the [bottom edge of the] cornice board at the very top of the window. It allowed the swags ...
JANET PLITT I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I...
LAURA PREPON We seldom have any beds open anywhere in the county.
SARAH SNYDER Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th...
ELEANOR FARJEON All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love
ELEANOR FARJEON It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.
ELEANOR FARJEON The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year
ELEANOR FARJEON I’m so hard right now my dick can cut diamonds.
- Andrew Parrish
J.A. REDMERSKI Are there any capitalist cats?" Nakata asked
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm not quite so sure about those (sleep) studies. I look at the performance results at some of the ...
ANNEMARIE SPADAFORA Tramps and vagabonds have marks they make on gateposts and trees and doors, letting others of their ...
NEIL GAIMAN To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.
DARON MALAKIAN The most common mistake with any carnivore, including cats, is you just throw in meat.
JOGAYLE HOWARD Any time you go anywhere on the road it is going to be tough.
JASMINE MCCULLOUGH We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.
IBRAHIM HOOPER You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.
AMIT RAY Wait until you feel the edge of your chair with the back of your knees,
DAVID BOYD I never one time saw John dancing on top of a grand piano.
BIG KENNY It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count o...
MORGAN FREEMAN Bloggers tend to be on the leading edge of any industry. They spot new products and services [before...
ANDY BEAL Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows.
"We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. ...
ILONA ANDREWS When you are doing all that you know to do

yet all hell is breaking out around you,
SANJO JENDAYI Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH It might be the toughest six-game start in any conference anywhere.
TOM IZZO A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music ...
CHARLES PETZOLD He's a great player. He can line up anywhere on the field. He's capable of scoring from any spot.
ANDRE JOHNSON We'll play anywhere, any time.
DERYN BRACE Is there anywhere else to sleep tonight... Anywhere?' I pleaded.
There's Mei's office, but you'...
TA'AFULI ANDREW FIU Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, I wait beyon...
STEVE RASNIC TEM I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
IMOGEN HEAP I need you to get down there, open the stalls inside, and panic the horses.”
“ ‘Panic’?...
ILONA ANDREWS Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm rig...
AMY WEBER All the major economic issues remain on the table. We're not going to the table with an answer to an...
PETER CONTE I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or ...
ALAN MOORE We're on the edge of our seats here, ... We are waiting for local crews on the scene to assess damag...
JEFF JONES We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.
JAN EGELAND Being in denial never resolved any problem for anyone, anywhere.
MUHAMMED HAIDER We won't accept any further job cuts anywhere in Europe.
KLAUS FRANZ One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano p...
ROBERT HUGHES The way I look at it, you've got to do what makes sense. I wouldn't take (any possibility) off the t...
ERIC HYMAN We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in...
ERNST ZUNDEL It is perfectly serendipitous,' said the boy, descending the steps to the street. 'Fancy that—us m...
ELEANOR CATTON Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman wh...
OGDEN NASH Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW You can't be going anywhere unless you get rid of your chair.
JECON B. NADELA There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars �...
J.A. REDMERSKI It's another really good fleet and any number of teams could come out on top. Obviously, any boat Ru...
MARK REYNOLDS

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Actors are one family over the entire world.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone els...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the gr...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Understanding is a two-way street.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do one thing every day that scares you.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the pla...
ELEANOR DUSE Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
ELEANOR BRON Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What one has to do usually can be done.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
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ELEANOR EARLY You always admire what you really don't understand.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping ...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the w...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Whatever come we have to meet it.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
ELEANOR BRON You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a...
ELEANOR CATTON My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified b...
ELEANOR CATTON Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
ELEANOR MONDALE As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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ELEANOR CATTON I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
ELEANOR MONDALE A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
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ELEANOR ACER It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decisi...
ELEANOR ACER This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution t...
ELEANOR ACER The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos...
ELEANOR MONDALE To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha...
ELEANOR CATTON We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
ELEANOR MARX Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. A...
ELEANOR CATTON The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
ELEANOR MONDALE In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imag...
ELEANOR CATTON I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or med...
ELEANOR CATTON Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where ...
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