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brief collected composed novelist overall structure texts various
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts. Italo Calvino
brief increased warning
Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warning before the amygdala hijack. For some of us, it is butterflies in the stomach; for some, it is an increased heart rate, and for others, it is a feeling of agitation. Elizabeth Thornton
brief
We had brief discussions with the SG and his entourage. Michael Wilson
brief brothers carol censored common death hour literally major music nbc prime richard shows stuffed talents time treasured tv variety
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death. Tom Shales
brief designer effortless girl respond role utterly wears whatever
A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer or communicate the vision of a designer - while making whatever she does look utterly effortless and whatever she wears utterly seamless. Erin O'Connor
brief bring illuminate mission moment opposed struggles thoughts
It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here. Mandy Patinkin
brief evocative lost possibilities
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation. David Whyte
brief good lived visit
I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery. Marlon Wayans
brief changed ignoring people treating
Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them. Tom Rath
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
changed
Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it. Catherine Fisher
changed streams
There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were. Cary Sherman
changed changing nature nor
Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground. Ludovico Ariosto
changed magazine newspaper people sound suit
The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say. Eddie Irvine
changed edge stopped took
We stopped at the edge of town, changed our clothes, and took the decorations off the car.
changed defense drive good shoot worked
We started out in a 2-3, which wasn't a very good defense ... because they can shoot the 3, and two of them can drive to the goal. So we changed it to a 3-2 and it worked much better.
changed complain game leg second
We started off well in the second leg and got a goal, which is what we needed. We can't complain about the first part of the game but it all changed when they got a penalty, Faye White
changed reinvent time
I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself. Leos Carax
changed middle parker
My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name. Lauren Worsham
educational keys doors
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
education teaching brain
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
education book men
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
education mind armor
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
education teaching knowledge
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
education prayer men
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. Charles Stanley
educational clothes giving
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life. Alan Watts
education learning buddhism
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
education country government
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton
globally true work
We are a true globally distributed work force.
global prices reflect taking
We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.
global national remains safe
Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.
global hold nature unique ways
As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are. Kate Bush
global great health human
In many ways, human health is the great global connector. Kathleen Sebelius
global movement mutant open platform playing qaeda religious restrained source supply works
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. Thomas Friedman
global mean national political politics reliable source
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority. Michael Ignatieff
global major mother personal september thinking
September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this. Donald Fagen
global heavy schedule travel
She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.
history who-we-are way
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
history want done
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
history social shank
History is the shank of the social sciences. C. Wright Mills
history lafayette might
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese
history want grants
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant
history
When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut
history
History! Read it and weep!
history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon
seems interfere
Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone. Carolina Herrera
seems situation stop trying
We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.
seems work
When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work. Jim Rash
seems
We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.
seems commonplace
Anything seems commonplace, once explained. Arthur Conan Doyle
seems
I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts. Kate Grenville
seems worlds
It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar. Todd Rundgren
seems
There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating. Dan Ariely
seems ifs
I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago. Ben Stein
thomas
We do not know if St. Thomas is on the list. Probably not. But who knows?
thomas tim
I'm going to make Tim Thomas come here. So it doesn't matter. Only kidding. Vince Carter