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people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
elements light
There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away. Christopher Bailey
elements
There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately. Anton Corbijn
elements good scripts three time
Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters. Lydia Leonard
elements band good-things
Having a visual element to your band is a good thing. Billy Gibbons
elements kind poet
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant. Denise Levertov
elements belief standing-out
The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success. Charles Garfield
elements wanted humans
From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it. Beth Orton
elements explosive fictional historical history
What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights. Matthew Pearl
elements eras sides
One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true. Barbara Tuchman
fantasy problem enough
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. China Mieville
fantasy-novels spy horror
I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels. Benjamin Percy
fantasy astronomy biomedical
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. Elizabeth Moon
fantasy fiction genres matters medical offer science technology
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives. Tansy Rayner Roberts
fantasy-love affair bizarre
My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins. Debra Messing
fantasy globe hear mind people pure throughout
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work. Mark Rylance
fantasy trouble brevity
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. Brandon Sanderson
fantasy heard rumors
We heard rumors over the years that Fantasy was on the market, but nothing materialized, John Fogerty
fantasy fast prisoners
'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive. Brent Weeks