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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only… — W. Somerset Maugham
When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical… — James McGreevey
I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or… — Michelle Obama
I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across. — Clive Owen
The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as… — Galen Rowell
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's… — Jessica Simpson
Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by… — Robert Smith
I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's… — Scott Thompson
It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice. — Steve Vai
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow:… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you… — Alan Bennett
You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end,… — Nicholas Sparks
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp… — Gustave Flaubert
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another… — Sam Harris
But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples,… — Sarah Vowell
I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across! — Diana Wynne Jones
This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you," he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he… — David Sedaris
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and… — Laurie R. King
If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable… — Pat Conroy
What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about… — Studs Terkel
Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book;… — Keith Donohue
In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path — Swami Vivekananda

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