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Once I was a forty pound weakling. Now I am two separate gorillas.


Vivian Stanshall

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I AM TIMEPIECE I am no longer a rare breed, I am an endangered species
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VIVIAN STANSHALL I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I ca...
VIVIAN STANSHALL Frankly, once I've eaten a thing... I don't expect to see it again.
VIVIAN STANSHALL Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?
VIVIAN STANSHALL 'If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.'
VIVIAN STANSHALL When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I sho...
SAMUEL JOHNSON When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I sho...
SARAH ORNE JEWETT I would not be where I am now am, if it wasn't for where I once was.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
ANNA QUINDLEN I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
STEFAN ZWEIG Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I wa...
CHUANG TZU Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformat...
JOE JOHNSTON Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've take...
BETTE DAVIS In the case of a person, ... you know, I was 10 once. I was 15 once. I was 20 once. I was 30 once. A...
DAVID JOHANSEN I walked to Montevallo.'
'Forty miles?!'
'Forty-two,' he corrected me. 'Well. Forty-two th...
JOHN GREEN I was both the monster and the sad girl. I couldn't separate the two.
JENNIFER BROWN Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to...
WOODROW T. WILSON Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time...
, ALWAYS NOW, 1997 Amazing grace! how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now a...
JOHN NEWTON I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am.
JUDY SHEINDLIN After that fight, they ranked (Castillo) in the top 10 pound-for-pound. And that only means one thin...
JUAN LAZCANO Since the summer of 2004 this project has won in two separate referendums and has been reaffirmed by...
CHUCK COURSEY I am not patient with everything and everyone like I once was. Now I save my patience for the import...
JIM ALTUM I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That...
JOAN ALLEN Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M. And we are magic talking to itself,
noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins
forgotten...
ANNE SEXTON Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING So what am I supposed to do when my 110-pound waitress tells a 450-pound Paul Bunyan not to light up...
FRANK WATKINS I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
GAGAN NARANG I am desperate to do a comedy now.
TOM HIDDLESTON I am ashes where once I was fire...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purp...
ZHUANGZI When I was forty and looking at sixty, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But sixty-two feels lik...
HARRY BELAFONTE I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
SALLY RAND Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself,
Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting...
ANNE SEXTON It was two separate kids with two different gang affiliations.
GREG HUDNALL We are just two lost souls looking for someone to love and understand us for who we really are at th...
KAREN KOSTYLA I was taught in church that I am a child of God. I also read the Old Testament. There is a story in ...
M.E. THOMAS I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
SATCHEL PAIGE I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordi...
DAVID LISS I was really discouraged, but going to the women's team was a great learning experience. I worked ou...
JASON CHERRY I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
IMAN Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.
LAJOS KOSSUTH Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.
DEBI THOMAS I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
LILLIE LANGTRY I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.
MISSY ELLIOTT True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Te...
MAHESH BABU I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsessio...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Had Aimee changed her mind just to ruin Julie's moment of happiness? No she told herself. Aimee is o...
VIVIAN LEMAY A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry - that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island.
JOHNNY CARSON Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better t...
AJAY DEVGAN I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning &po...
ERIC BRISTOW I feel that my daughter was put in harm's way. I feel that measures should have been taken to separa...
LARRY TURNER We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
BASSEM YOUSSEF Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
MICHAEL KORDA I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly d...
ZHUANGZI I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly d...
CHUANG TZU Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that...
CONRAD AIKEN I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
G. H. HARDY When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a...
GABRIELLE APLIN My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.
DIEGO MARADONA Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
OVID Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one I think it is.
MARK TWAIN The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
TALCOTT PARSONS I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give...
MARC CHAGALL When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verb...
JILL BENNETT I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.
ROBERT REDFORD I am what I am. A fighter.
GORDON RAMSAY He was extremely reclusive. If I saw him once every two months, that was a lot.
LYNN KASATKIN I once was blind, but now I see; deaf, but now I hear; ignorant, but now I know; and dead, but now I...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We needed four bedrooms, a two-car garage. I wanted a separate laundry room. I'm from Lancaster Coun...
BETH MACKIE But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisioni...
ERNST ZUNDEL Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
JACKIE CHAN I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
KURT VONNEGUT I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling!
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WOODY ALLEN I was once nestled in a cocoon but baby now i feel free as a butterfly
KRISTINA ARPAJIAN Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star wh...
ABRAHAM PAIS England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
VOLTAIRE England has forty-two religions and only two sauces
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VIVIAN KING I just didn't realize what we were in for. Nobody tells you these things. It's like childbirth.
VIVIAN CAMMICK The song of the sea does not end at the shore.
VIVIAN GREENE You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what’s missing.
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VIVIAN CAMPBELL And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure.
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VIVIAN SWIFT When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.
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Yeah right. Tell that to an...
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C. VIVIAN STRINGER I'm not going to tell you now while everyone is listening.
C. VIVIAN STRINGER She doesn't mind. E takes great pride in that.
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