Top 12 Excerpted Transcript Quotes
#1. Though the rain had pitter-pattered, then pelted the carriages during the drive had stopped, the ground was wet and boggy, sucking at feet as though hoping to keep anyone from ever leaving the estate.
Jessica Lawson
#2. I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.
Sadako Ogata
#3. Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Bruce Lee
#4. I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
Isabel Allende
#5. We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union
a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#6. The main thing was finding this ... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.
Gillian Welch
#7. He was not a big deal. He looked short. I was sure his hair made Oliver jealous, though, so I snapped a picture of him and sent it,
Claire Contreras
#8. The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.
Nolan Bushnell
#9. The sustaining taste of victory can never be replaced by the cold metal of a trophy.
M.T. Bass
#11. So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.
Kathy Griffin
#12. It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always
appreciated.
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