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expectations ugly helping
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? Charles Dickens
expectations shining quality
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. Charles Caleb Colton
expectations done defying
I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting. Alan Rickman
expectations sacred looks
With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day. Aiden Wilson Tozer
expectations goodness
Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.
expectations firsts novel
If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do. Chloe Grace Moretz
expectations being-the-best lows
If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations. Chip Kelly
expectations assumption
All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work. David Kim
expectations people trying
When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem. Catherine Deneuve
needed veto
I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her. Lorraine Toussaint
needed prove relaxed
'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
needed reason signature
The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece. George Thorogood
needed
I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue. Earl Butz
needed stepped whenever
Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play. Karl Dorrell
needed amazed surprising
I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it. Cheryl Strayed
needed whether
Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.
needed recover year
We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.
needed next
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.' Karin Slaughter
school figures ifs
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. Alan Watts
school hard-work church
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. Alan Paton
school age taught
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. Alan Moore
school opportunity thinking
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
school ideas forgotten
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. Alan Bennett
school boys oxford
My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
school care students
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball
school exercise keys
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time. Alan Alda
school thinking lasts
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
thought-provoking house ceilings
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it? Chinua Achebe
thought-provoking giving headache
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
thought-provoking
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
thoughtful long battle
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come. David Quammen
thoughts-of-death repose
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose. Cesare Pavese
thoughtful decision sticks
I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it. Casey Stoner
thoughtful talking going-away
That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone. William Shakespeare
thoughtful perfect levels
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful. C. S. Lewis
thoughtful thinking psychics
I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so? Charlaine Harris
typewriters years space
My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that. David Sedaris
typewriters joy trying
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it. Charles Kuralt
type minus
Im not really Type A, but A minus. Bobbi Brown
type
You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going. Bob Marley
typewriters novelists poet
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. Billy Collins
type knows know-how
I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything. Billy Bob Thornton
typecast
The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you. Kevin Rahm
typewriters circumstances virginians
Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter. Daniel Handler
type-2-diabetes vampire boring
In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes. Craig Ferguson