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As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I don't listen to a huge amount of music generally. Partly because you've sat in a studio for 10 hours and then… — Herbert Copy Share Image
My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not… — John Katzman Copy Share Image
The whole town’s talking about the way Jax Stone sat in your hospital room and snag to you until you came out… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Well that's basically how we launched Sherwood Pictures, and with our films, we sat down and we had a long list of… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I went to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, which was great but very different from a typical university. They… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible,… — John Shaw Billings Copy Share Image
My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and… — George Benson Copy Share Image
how many times would a defendant's lawyer enter the courtroom before a session and ask each of the male clerks and paralegals… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in… — Payne Stewart Copy Share Image
I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all… — Clinton Sparks Copy Share Image
Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever… — Bun B Copy Share Image
After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found… — Jimmy Chamberlin Copy Share Image
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
When I sat down with the creators of the show [Longmire], back when we were first starting to do the pilot, Branch… — Bailey Chase Copy Share Image
We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Amy sat back and grinned. "You just smiled." That was definitely something else she could get used to. Of course, he frowned… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
With all the touring and distractions going on, I would get a sound together but I wouldn't have time to work on… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?"… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image