Top 100 Quotes About Duncan
#1. My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.
Glen Duncan
#2. My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
Jacob Rothschild
#3. I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.
Chris Bosh
#4. During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.
Amanda Hocking
#5. The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really want to see on screen. I won't be doing those.
Duncan Jones
#6. Of course, even though Peter and I have had our disagreements, we share a bond I'd defend to the death if needs be. If all goes according to the natural order of things, siblings will know us longer than our parents, longer than our spouses and friends. Lord Westdale to Duncan
Kieran Kramer
#7. It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Isadora Duncan
#8. Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
Glen Duncan
#9. Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!
Stuart Duncan
#10. With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.
Glen Duncan
#11. Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
Iain Duncan Smith
#12. What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.
Duncan D. Hunter
#13. I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.'
Lindsay Duncan
#14. Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#15. Autism; It's not new just because you haven't heard of it until now.
Stuart Duncan
#16. I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?
Lindsay Duncan
#17. I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.
Duncan Sheik
#19. Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.
Nikki Blonsky
#20. eyes: so transparently enslaved by the soul
Glen Duncan
#21. I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
Isadora Duncan
#22. There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it.
Glen Duncan
#23. Revolution was never sparked by political philosophy. It has ever been the price of bread that shakes the pillars of the world. Yet they lock up the thinkers and leave the bakers free.
Rod Duncan
#24. I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
Isadora Duncan
#25. My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive.
Lindsay Duncan
#26. I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
Isadora Duncan
#27. To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.
Duncan Bannatyne
#28. Her face is a map of remembered trouble and absorbed guilt, The green eyes look broken, as if their glass has shattered. A motorway pile-up of wrecked mascara. Lashes jeweled with tears.
Glen Duncan
#29. The only way to be sure of never losing the ones you love. The Dahmer Method. Extreme, but effective.
Glen Duncan
#30. Open, the eyes of the dead are a travesty, a parody, make a fool of the deceased. Open, the eyes of the dead perform that most indecent subtraction, show the person without his life.
Glen Duncan
#31. The government needs the help of industry. But the reality is companies will balance that against their own commercial interest in a very competitive market.
Michael Clarke Duncan
#33. That was the treachery of suffering. It took you to the point from which you thought death must follow, then let you know it could hold you there indefinitely. That was when you stopped fearing death and started wanting it, praying for it, begging for it.
Glen Duncan
#35. I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if felt like it you'd learn deceit too. Biology is destiny. You can't blame women.
Glen Duncan
#36. The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Isadora Duncan
#38. Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.
Duncan Sheik
#39. Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.
Janet Flanner
#40. Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.
Glen Duncan
#41. She knew more about these situations than she realized, he thought. She'd spent years at Duncan's side. "When in doubt," he added, "be pompous.
John Flanagan
#42. Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.
Glen Duncan
#43. All the metaphors in this world wouldn't scratch the surface of what stepping into darkness is like for me. And that's just darkness. Don't get me started on light. Really, don't get me started on light.
Glen Duncan
#44. Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.
Tim Duncan
#45. I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.
Duncan Sheik
#46. - Come Inanna, enter, Neti said to her, and as Inanna entered the first gate, the sugurra, crown of the steppe, was taken from her head.
- What is this? asked Inanna
- Quiet, Inanna, she was told. The customs of the city of the dead are perfect. They may not be questioned.
Hal Duncan
#47. I simply knew, via song, sunlight, redwings and cottonwoods, that there was a world I was born to live in, that the men I was standing beside lived in another, and that as long as I remembered this their words would never hurt me again.
David James Duncan
#48. Great doubt: great awakening. Little doubt: little awakening. No doubt: no awakening. - Zen mantra
Barry L. Duncan
#49. It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.
Tim Duncan
#50. I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are.
Glen Duncan
#51. As I consider myself nothing nor nobody more than Peter Sellers in Being There or at my liveliest as Inspector Clousseau, it is difficult to make "Susie" sound interesting?
Susie Duncan Sexton
#52. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
David James Duncan
#53. The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted.
David Douglas Duncan
#54. We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.
Arne Duncan
#55. My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.
David Douglas Duncan
#56. Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne.
Nalini Singh
#58. For the minimum-wager with Caligulan needs, the glory days are soon over.
Glen Duncan
#59. [Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares about people.
Iain Duncan Smith
#60. (I invented rock and roll. You wouldn't believe the things I've invented. Anal sex, obviously. Smoking. Astrology. Money ... Let's save time: Everything in the world that distracts you from thinking about God. Which ... pretty much ... is everything in the world, isn't it? Gosh.)
Glen Duncan
#61. Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
Arne Duncan
#62. The hardest part about photography is getting out of bed.
Ken Duncan
#63. Every present anger derives from past weakness.
Glen Duncan
#64. Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions
Duncan William Gibbons
#65. To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
Isadora Duncan
#66. I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.
Hal Duncan
#67. You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
Lindsay Duncan
#68. If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you'd be miserable poor.
Glen Duncan
#69. I just wanted to win on the road, honestly. I don't remember the road ever being this tough.
Tim Duncan
#70. I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.
Lindsay Duncan
#71. The modern adult, Jake had written, has really only one thing to say to its inner child: I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry
Glen Duncan
#72. With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
Iain Duncan Smith
#73. Your direction is a result of your perception.
Todd Duncan
#74. There's an exclamation mark on this keyboard which shares tab-space with the number one. Shift+1=! It's insufficient. Radically inadequate as the denotation of my surprise. Even in bold. Even in underlined bold italic. I need something else, some punctuation mark not yet invented.
Glen Duncan
#75. When it was time to talk about Warcraft we took our time, we knew what the story was going to be, we had a field general in Duncan Jones. Same thing with Godzilla, we kind of measured twice, cut once.
Thomas Tull
#76. Extraordinary what the body remembers. The bones loded with love, grief silting the arteries, fear the bowels' recurring mould. Who would have thought mere flesh and blood could hold so much of psyche's ghostly script?
Glen Duncan
#77. Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.
Lois Duncan
#78. He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually.
Glen Duncan
#79. I always say YCDA: you can do anything. If you want
to be a successful actor, you have to believe in yourself more than
anything else, and dont let anybody tell you that you cannot do it
because you can.
Michael Clarke Duncan
#80. My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after some delay when it was possible for me to go to college I had definitely decided to specialize in chemistry.
Wallace Carothers
#81. Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.
Stuart Duncan
#82. I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.
Shaquille O'Neal
#83. This just didn't happen to girls like me. This just didn't happen to anyone.
Jenna-Lynne Duncan
#84. It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him.
Stuart Duncan
#85. You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.
Glen Duncan
#86. About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
Arne Duncan
#87. Unless your goal is to train your readers to be detectives, only the details necessary to give the reader an idea of the scene should be included.
Kat Duncan
#88. Thousands of people die every year of cold, so if we had global warming it would save lives ... We ought to look out for people. The earth can take care of itself.
Duncan Hunter
#89. My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.
Lindsay Duncan
#90. The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
Isadora Duncan
#91. Vengeance for the murdered supposed the dead enjoyed sufficient afterlife to appreciate their efforts. The dead enjoyed nothing of the kind. The dead didn't go anywhere, except, if you were the monster who'd taken their lives and devoured them, into you.
Glen Duncan
#92. All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its ... motivation. Thus vampires spend a lot of time lounging around and staring out of the window and finding they can't be arsed.
Glen Duncan
#93. I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
Arne Duncan
#94. The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
Iain Duncan Smith
#95. I think that when we talk about education I was also blessed to talk with my dear brother Arne Duncan. I had never met him, the secretary of Education. We had a wonderful talk. And I had told him quite explicitly education is a right, it's not a race to the top.
Cornel West
#96. A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
Arne Duncan
#97. If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.
Glen Duncan
#98. Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths
Duncan Long
#99. She thought ray i'll never see ray again there was a time she looked into those green eyes and said i love you so long ago he'll never know i still do
Lois Duncan
#100. I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos.
Duncan Sheik
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