oar Quotes and Quotations
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oar Quotes and Quotations
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The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. Chris Van Allsburg | top
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. Charles Babbage | top
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I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good. Travis Barker | top
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. George Eliot | top
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I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it. Dawn French | top
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I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place. Arthur Godfrey | top
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I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. Dorothy Hamill | top
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Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top. Vernon Jordan | top
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller | top
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal. Jack Kevorkian | top
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Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law. Richard Lamm | top
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. Tanith Lee | top
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality. Ed Markey | top
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I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing. Christopher Meloni | top
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. John Muir | top
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If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things. Nick Park | top
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I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. Keanu Reeves | top
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There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. Robert Reich | top
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The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. J. M. Roberts | top
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Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express. Morley Safer | top
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! Saint Francis de Sales | top
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The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time. Marilyn vos Savant | top
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Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. Aiden Wilson Tozer | top
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I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. Janine Turner | top
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I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball. Cy Young | top
