What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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In our post 9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ~Mike Rogers
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong. ~Randal Marlin
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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