Quotes of: True-life Keyword

I think if people want to go back and look at season two of 'True Blood,' I'm proud of my work in that.

Ashley Jones

Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

Brody Jenner

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Emma Thompson

The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

Jencarlos Canela

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

Ron White

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

Jill Abramson

I want to waste my life Just by thinking, Just by writing, Just by dreaming my life. I want to spend my life Just by loving, Just by caring, Just by sharing my life. I want to destroy my life Just by giving, Just by forgiving, Just by living my life.

Debasish Mridha

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

Richard Eyre

A purposeful life is a happy life.

Debasish Mridha

Don't ask in this life for the three most difficult things: good sons, long life and a long beard.

Chinese

I happen to know this, and I happen to know that, and maybe I know that;and I work everything out from there. Tomorrow I may forgot that this is true, but remember that something else is true, so I can reconstruct it all again. I am never quite sure ...

The Character of Physical Law

Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a true Shadowhunter name." She heard Will exhale a breath. It came out a puff of wh...

Clockwork Princess

Excuse me, Ben," Bowen said. "Am I wrong, or aren't you the corporate treasurer?" Glisan bristled. "Yes." "What do you mean, you think you can get one?" Bowen shot back. "This is the current fucking maturities schedule! Go get it. You have to have a ...

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

Baseball is just a game. But like religion, it has rituals. I need rituals. I need traditions. I need something to believe in, whether I worship in a church or a stadium. I believe in the Yankees and then divorced them and came all the way back to be...

Confessions of a She-Fan: The Course of True Love with the New York Yankees

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again. Her bad heart, I noticed, did not force her to abstain from smoking, or from eating l...

Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal

Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to add insult to injury, was mine -- I had lent it to him) all of a sudden started to ring. Instead of turning it off, he gently inter...

In Defense of Lost Causes

Would women find vampires even sexier and more romantic if instead of fangs they had rose thorns? It’s thoughts like these I think of when digging in my garden, looking for my one true love (If only I could remember where I buried her!). 

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then, as we drive them up to the college interviews that they’ve heard since birth are the gateway to the lives they were de...

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

It is the finding of neuroscience, in fact, that belief is at least in part a matter of emotion. Whatever we believe to be true lights up areas of our brain responsible for self-identification and the processing of feelings and sentiments. If we beli...

Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't

But you do believe, don’t you," Rose implored him, "you think it’s true?" "Of course it’s true," the Boy said. "What else could there be?" he went scornfully on. "Why," he said, "it’s the only thing that fits. These atheists, they don’t kno...

Brighton Rock

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now. I fell in love with him. But I don’t just st...

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