Paired Data Quotes

#1. I don't want to work all of the time.

Penelope Ann Miller

#2. 'Trading Places' did more for my career than anything I'd ever done. It was a zonking great hit, and it was also just a joy to do.

Denholm Elliott

#3. American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

Chad Harbach

#4. The light was misty and actinic, the sort of light to make Steven Spielberg reach for his copyright lawyer.

Terry Pratchett

#5. People talk of "class selfishness". Well, I know something of history, and I never heard of any tyrant, aristocrat, capitalist, slave-holder, buccaneer, middle-class shopkeeper - so absolutely and exclusively governed by selfishness as Trades Union "labour".

George Saintsbury

#6. And what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy

E. E. Cummings

#7. Central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.

Steven Levy

#8. It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#9. My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.

Thomas Steinbeck

#10. Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).

Fatima Bint Muhammad

#11. She kept a stack of books near the tub so she could read in the bath, even though the edges of the pages turned moldy. She read on trains and on buses, which often made her late as she was forever missing her stop.

Alice Hoffman

#12. Today, I have seen a lonely giraffe attacked and eaten by ten lions. This cannot be God's Order; this is obviously Devil's Order! God is not here, even though the fools claim the opposite!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. We live in a society that puts a high premium on success and I learned, mainly through my dad, that salvation would come through success, and I carried that into my adult life and it's a total lie.

Steve Almond