Quotes with short-wave

Quotes 101 till 120 of 324.

  • Aleksander Kwasniewski However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Bill Maris Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Anne Dudley I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bryan Adams I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Charles Darwin I hate every wave of the ocean, with a fervor
    Letter to W.D. Fox, 15 februari 1836
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Peggy Noonan I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Tom Stoppard I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • John Burroughs I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Armistead Maupin I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Coville I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Alice Munro I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Anne Perry I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • J. R. Tolkien I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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