He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren’… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is… — Troy Baker Copy Share Image
Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic"… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
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Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
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My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
The eurosceptics, many of whom are my friends and are highly intelligent people with strong views, they are entirely respectable in every… — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
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Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Confidence comes from within and as long as you are putting forth a respectable effort to take good care of yourself, you… — Stacy Keibler Copy Share Image
A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp…moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not… — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto,… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films… — Joely Richardson Copy Share Image
Doing the show. That 10 AM feeling when the doors open up. Forget about it! Also, my son coming home with a… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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