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average careers long
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties! Charles Stross
average effort excellent
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding. Charles Stanley
average space complicated
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen. Alan Guth
average fading saws
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. Alan Greenspan
average excellence refuse
Refuse to be average. Aiden Wilson Tozer
average lasts halls
Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.' Chip Kelly
average people sides
I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people. David Cross
average sound band
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average. Buddy Rich
average people half
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. C. J. Cherryh
behavior fit good kids learn physically respect themselves
We want the kids to be physically fit and learn good behavior, sportsmanship, respect for themselves and for others. Chris Laramore
behavior claim corporate dispute further labor managers plan position prolonged reflected store strongly
We strongly dispute the claim that the behavior of some store managers reflected a corporate plan devised to further the company's position during the prolonged labor negotiations. Paul Heldman
behavior bounce enjoy
We actually enjoy them - their behavior and how they bounce around and stuff. They've always been a pleasure. Now rats, that's a different story. John Silva
behavior cannot expense expression free freedom rights support tolerate
We have no idea who is doing this, but we cannot tolerate this kind of behavior. Certainly, we support the free expression of ideas, but the freedom to do so must not come at the expense of the rights of others. Liz Irwin
behavior guarantees looking needs power region stability
What the region is looking for - and needs - is a power that guarantees stability through predictable behavior. Matt Bryden
behavior modification calvin-and-hobbes-friendship
I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin Bill Watterson
behavior legal
Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior. Leonid Hurwicz
behavior found mothers nasty sons toward versus
We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They weren't being nasty to their sons or encouraging to their daughters. Elizabeth Lonsdorf
behavior timeless human-behavior
Human behavior is timeless. Barbara Tuchman
crystal liked lived love oriental
I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble. Candace Bushnell
crystal family receiving special surrounded three
To be surrounded by friends and family is more special than receiving the crystal globe. This will be the most special of the three because it's here in Canada. Jennifer Heil
crystals evaporates heat love means run salt song worked
I've got a song called 'Salt Skin' because when you run in the heat it evaporates and you've got salt crystals on your face. I love that, because it means you've worked really hard. Ellie Goulding
crystals cracks balls
I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball. Adam Lambert
crystal likely travel
I don't have a crystal ball, but travel is likely to slow. Christopher Traulsen
crystal likely scenario
I don't have a crystal ball, but I'd say the most likely scenario right now is we'll see it spread, Julie Gerberding
crystal ground learns lives soon
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. Edgar Fiedler
crystals trios singers
I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio. Anne McCaffrey
crystals chemistry captured
I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals. Dorothy Hodgkin
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason Charles Dickens
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. Charles Caleb Colton
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel. Charles Dickens
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time. Brian Nicola
patterns myth
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns. David Mitchell
patterns schemes human-life
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism. Bertrand Russell
pattern plans venezuela
Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail, James Montier
patterns rays doe
Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern. Bill Hicks
patterns clear shows
My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability. Ashleigh Brilliant
pattern people
The pattern that you will find in the people I appoint is they have extraordinary people skills, Carl Cohn
pattern society
I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd. Kim Basinger
patterns able problem
Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought Albert Einstein
patterns life-is individual
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern. Albert Einstein
purchasing rover symbolic wider
The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous. Martin Jacques
purchasing
They said, 'Well, it can be done, but we'll have to do it a different way (rather than purchasing the series).' So here we are. Richard Petty
purchasing review wholesale
It's a wholesale review of the county's purchasing code. Tom Mitchell
purchasing temporary
It's your temporary "wants" purchasing your unnecessary "needs". Rodel Natividad
purchasing fairs
All's fair in love and purchasing. Emily Oster
puts risk
Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk. Kofi Annan
puts
This puts us right where we want to be ? things will get real interesting. Larry Coker
puts side table
This puts them on the same side of the table as you, Jim Stone
puts till understand words
There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words Francis Bradley
puts
Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage. Jeff Long
puts yankee
Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win! Phil Rizzuto
puts
He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers. Mack Strong
puts town
It essentially puts our little town on the map. David Whitehead
puts roy
Roy is not a promoter. He's very laid-back. That's not a show he puts on. Phil Garner
reading writing character
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment. Charles Dickens
reading believe writing
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing. Charles Dickens
reading writing style
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word. Charles Stross
reading years people
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. Charles Stanley
reading age praying
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. Charles Spurgeon
reading believe water
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice. Charles Spurgeon
reading light giving
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. Charles Spurgeon
reading writing impossible
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write. Alan Bennett
reading long enough
The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. Alan Bennett
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Charles Caleb Colton
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. Charles Caleb Colton
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Charles Caleb Colton
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. Charles Caleb Colton
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. Charles Caleb Colton
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. Charles Caleb Colton