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“I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!”

Ifs Knows Littles Self Joy Found Hours Sleep Half Tree Sea Flower Yellow Butterfly Frozen Breeze Half Hours Found You Monarch Butterfly Yellow Flower

Author:William Wordsworth

Source: The Major Works

“I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.”

“I've weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet since puberty.”

Wet Puberty Soaking

Author:Shenae Grimes

“I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.”

School Behinds Hell Five Beats Twenties Legs Ass Boxing Iron Graduates Yards Harvard Twenty Five

Author:Don King

“I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!”

Internet Files

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.”

Knows Want Dream Chance What You Want Stop Dreaming

Author:Deb Caletti

“I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.”

Ifs Performing Monk Music Business Fleas Warhol Xenon

Author:John Lennon

“I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!”

Ifs Wanted Courses Racism Hollywood Discrimination Traditional

Author:Zoe Saldana

“I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.”

Trying Sports Failing Athlete Superiors

Author:Willie Stargell

“I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.”

Whole Dream Song Records Listening Tape Recorders

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.”

Years Firsts Two Levels Two Years Nba Championship Frustrating

Author:Steve Blake

“I've won a lot of times with my wife and son here, and I've won solo. I don't think there's a formula for when the come out and when they don't I'm simply happy to win.”

Thinking Winning Wife Son My Wife Formulas Solo Wife And Son Simply Happy

Author:Vijay Singh

“I've won a medal, but that's nothing compared to the crown I'll get in Heaven. I see a lot of people in sports who think when they reach a certain level they've got it made, but really, you can only find happiness in the Lord.”

People Thinking Made Certain Heaven Sports Levels Lord Crowns Medal Finding Happiness

Author:Cindy Klassen

“I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.”

Whole Winning Europe Prize Bloody Delighted

Author:Doris Lessing

“I've won at every level, except college and pro.”

Winning Levels College Basketball

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I've won at every level.”

Levels

Author:Jason Terry

“I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.”

Atheist Debate

Author:Francis Joseph Sheed

“I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.”

Ifs Want Hunger Hungry Awards

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.”

Thinking Lasts Motivation Fighting Winning Four Fighter Dancer Ballet Ballet Dancer Knockouts

Author:Sergio Martinez

“I've won not just in MMA but also for the US and let me tell you, the US Greco Roman wrestler is never the guy that's the favorite, not overseas. I'm used to going into hostile countries and competing against the number one guy in their country instead of the number one guy in Chicago.”

Country Used Guy Numbers Let Me Mma Chicago Competing Hostile Wrestler

Author:Joe Warren

“I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.”

Games Knowing Plenty Pitcher Opposing

Author:Walter Alston

“I've won Satan's lottery.”

Satan Lottery

Author:Christopher Moore

Source: Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

“I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.”

Let Me Oscars Grammy Emmys

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.”

School Cycling

Author:Eddy Merckx

“I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?”

Might Care Gay Sexuality Acceptable

Author:George Michael

“I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away. I'm looking for the truth." And so it goes away. Puzzling.”

Thinking Long Real Truth Action Saws Doors Boring Going Away Puzzling Metropolitan

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.”

Thinking Important

Author:Richard Paul Evans

Source: Walking on Water: A Novel

“I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.”

Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“I've worked a lot during the night. But I don't sleep in the day either.”

Night Sleep

Author:Enrique Iglesias

“I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.”

Want Ends Stuff Bits Conflict Horse Historical Want Me Paranoid Spirals Sweden

Author:George Blagden

“I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.”

Kind Character Stories Humanity Easy Edges Witty Funny And Witty

Author:Ciaran Hinds

“I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.”

Character Shed

Author:Sam Neill

“I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.”

Running My Own Shops Deputies

Author:John Podhoretz

“I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.”

Done Behinds Keys Europe Train Newspapers Russia Serving Eastern Circus Bicycle Eastern Europe Balkans

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.”

Trying Two Kids Bits Break Magic Ready Skills Tricks Entertaining Magic Tricks Two Bit

Author:Johnny Carson

“I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.”

Knows Know How

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.”

Years Film Theater

Author:Armand Assante

“I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.”

Years Littles Lasts Week Couple Farewell Embarrassing Pouring Little Time Time Off

Author:Regis Philbin

“I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game.”

Ifs Want Feels Firsts Stills Lasts Young Games Treats Winner Awards Entitlement Sense Of Entitlement

Author:R.A. Dickey

“I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.”

Knows Two President Change Work Four Office Routine Oval

Author:Dick Cheney

“I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of the interaction of personalities and ideas. And so I don't believe war between the U.S. and China is in any way inevitable, and it's well within the province of diplomacy and statecraft to avoid it.”

Believe War President Personality Significant Inevitable Diplomacy

Author:Richard N. Haass

“I've worked for law firms, I've worked for corporations, and for the past 20 years, I've been writing working for myself, and believe me it's a lot better. That's a big part of the James Bond panache, that you're responsible, 100 percent responsible, for the success or failure of your mission in life, whatever it is.”

Writing Believe Past Responsible Firm Believe In Me Success Or Failure

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.”

Years Roles Stage Havens Proud Males

Author:Ian McLeod

“I've worked for over 11 years in the Muslim world, and the one thing that I feel like I've learned - who's to say if it's true or not true, it's just my experience - is that men don't like to see really strong, aggressive women in that area of the world.”

Ifs Men World Feels Years Strong One Thing Areas I've Learned Aggressive Muslim World

Author:Lynsey Addario

“I've worked for years with Michael Kors, and he's just like this funny, charismatic guy.”

Years Guy Charismatic

Author:Erin Heatherton

“I've worked hard all my life.”

Hard Sports Inspirational Life Inspirational Sports Hard Life

Author:Dawn Fraser

“I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.”

Hard Scene Accomplished Heavyweights

Author:Lennox Lewis

“I've worked hard and I deserve everything I have. I never thought I'd have so much money. I just wanted to be financially stable and it embarrasses me and I don't feel comfortable talking or thinking about it. I don't know exactly how much I have but I don't buy much.”

Thinking Knows Feels Hard Wanted Talking Comfortable Deserve Stable

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I've worked hard on my doctorate, and I want to be acknowledged for that. But I also wanted to comment on this message that women get that the most important thing they can do is police their appearance.”

Want Important Hard Wanted Can Do Messages Police Important Things Appearance Comment Doctorates

Author:Alissa Nutting

“I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.”

Years Made Hard Inspiration Made It Injured

Author:Usain Bolt

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