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F. R. Leavis

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I'm an affectionate person.
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I don't think about the media.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
R. DRABEK
Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest ...
R. TURNBULL
We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.
R. SOUTHWELL
The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
R. POCOCK
When God created the first human beings, God led them around the garden of Eden and said: Look at my...
R. KOHELET
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill...
R. VENNING
Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS
'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's...
R. KELLY
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. KELLY
In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears ar...
FRIDA R.
I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in...
R. KELLY
People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you withou...
R. KELLY
My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around ...
R. KELLY
When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago ...
R. KELLY
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
R. KELLY
Day drinking with a broken heart
is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports,
tryna...
FRIDA R.
The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.
R. STEVENS
Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that'...
R. STEVENS
Wasting sarcasm is a sin.
R. STEVENS
Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification?
R. STEVENS
I'm NOT short. I prefer to think there is simply more space above my head for word balloons full of ...
R. STEVENS
Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts.
R. STEVENS
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the pi...
R. KELLY
I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
R. GEIS
I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
R. KELLY
I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ...
GOPAKUMAR R
I am not a traditionalist, questioning the social condition of the society. To achieve this, I use V...
GOPAKUMAR R
'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it&#...
R. KELLY
'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I...
R. KELLY
I have always been infatuated with country music.
R. KELLY
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l...
R. KELLY
Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you m...
R ZACCHARIAS
As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. I...
R. KELLY
Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've ...
R. KELLY
I slept and I dreamed that life was all joy. I woke and saw that life was but service. I served and ...
R. TAGORE
To be handed a lot of money is to be handed a glass sword, blade first.
R. BACH
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
R. GEIS
& Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it.
JEANETTE R.
Be a froot loop in a world full of cheerios :)
SANDRA R
We are relentless.
We don't compromise grace.
But when we hunt, we're vicious.
FRIDA R.
The person who's made for you is gonna love the good, bad, and ugly parts of you.
FRIDA R.
She falls back like a dead weight. The red hair loosens from the hair band and spreads in the colorf...
PAT R
Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt li...
R. KELLY
I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.
R. KELLY
For every quote, there is one that challenges it.
R. ALISTAIR
I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. Th...
R. KELLY
I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself...
R. KELLY