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silly moon class
I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer. Dick Van Dyke
silly years comedian
Ive been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly. Diane Neal
silly heart character
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? Edgar Allan Poe
silly effort mind
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better. Edsger Dijkstra
silly wind sand
Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought. Basil Bunting
silly thinking people
I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes. David Neeleman
silly writing fiction
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction. David Nicholls
silly thinking people
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now? Abraham Lincoln
silly thinking nfl
I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5. Aaron Rodgers
writing dust skeletons
What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us. Alexandra Fuller
writing giving people
We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points. Chris Eyre
writing dust damnation
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. Charles Spurgeon
writing tears pockets
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
writing eight ideas
Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.
writing sometimes enough
Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you. Diane Kruger
writing analysis fiction
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. Dennis Potter
writing speech metaphor
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
hard-work good-things accord
The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work. Democritus
hard-work sacrifice succeed
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. Dean Kamen
hard-work genius moral
Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work. Elbert Hubbard
hard-work funny-work people
Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
hard-work appreciate simplicity
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better
hard-work reality appreciate
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
hard-work opportunity simple
...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
hard-work discipline simplicity
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
hard-work thinking desire
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard. Ed O'Brien