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“The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.”

Inspiration Secret Clear Stubbornness

Book:Other Colors

Source: Other Colors

“As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977 the bow-wave of publicity for the first Star Wars movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.”

Firsts Children War Stars Fiction Clear Science Fiction Wave Autumn Bows Publicity War Movie Star Wars Movie

Author:Philip Reeve

“I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.”

Results Roles Clear Changed Degrees Concepts Election Always Believe Wikileaks General Elections

Author:Julian Assange

“There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.”

Feels Clear Devil

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.”

Needs Action Jobs Economy Clear Aggressive Battered

Author:Nita Lowey

“Life is full of adventure. Theres no such thing as a clear pathway.”

Life Is Clear Adventure Pathways

Author:Guy Laliberte

“When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.”

People Made I Can Clear Risk Involved Made It Dawn

Author:Gerry Adams

“To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.”

People Writing I Can Might Able Song Difficult Can Do Clear Sky Blue Radio Pops Admire Chairs Blue Sky Pop Song Clear Blue Sky

Author:Barry Manilow

“I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.”

Two Dream Water Clear Forests Ice Crystals Cathedrals Diving Arctic Antarctica Clear Water

Author:Enric Sala

“A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.”

Problem Clear Solutions Universal Firm Providence Theological Apprehension

Author:B. B. Warfield

“Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, its important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.”

Feels Important Helping Space Morning Clear Flower Plant Calm Help Me Every Morning My Space Plants And Flowers

Author:Nicola Formichetti

“In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.”

Made Clear Theater Definitions Made It Ephemeral

Author:Rafael Vinoly

“There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.”

Should Art Faces Certain Goal Decision Cases Clear Information Occasions Uncertainty Consistently

Book:Next Generation Leader

Source: Next Generation Leader

“Its clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol.”

Energy Clear Ethanol

Author:Patricia A. Woertz

“I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became clear.”

Thinking I Can Different Speak Voice Clear Cutting Proud Blessed Rate Breathe Meat Different Things Vegetarian Dairy

Author:Common

“Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what were dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.”

Black Space Clear Wave Holes Maps Accurate Crystals Relativity Black Hole Space Time General Relativity

Author:Kip Thorne

“What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.”

Needs Helping Justice Simple Clear Unique Understood Dignity Clarity Revolutionary Thinker Elites

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.”

Way Kind Persons Bigs Walks Vision Clear Work Out Bows Happy Endings Crutches Clear Vision Things Work Out Everything Works Out

Author:Jill McCorkle

“Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.”

Two Answers Class Clear Quantity Liable Tissues Mammals Premium Fatness

Book:The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

Source: The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

“I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that's within himself, and through this light he will create a new community.”

People Ifs Knows Men Want Looks Reason Enough Light Seems Community Leader Clear Trouble Needed Messages Profound Every Man Reason Why Our Time Great Leader

Author:Laurens van der Post

“Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!”

Clear Observation Customs Rooted Superstitions

Author:RuPaul

“Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.”

Needs Clear Internet

Author:Jamais Cascio

“When I first heard John Smith my attention was captured by his sweet, earthy voice and fine craftsmanship, but what drew me in was his heart. It's clear that he's lived the pain in his songs and that his optimism is hope born of wisdom. That's a rare thing and a gift to all who hear him.”

Firsts Heart Pain Song Voice Born Attention Clear Heard Sweet Fine Optimism Captured Craftsmanship Rare Things John Smith

Author:Tom Kimmel

“In the end we must be merciful to the fallen, show grace to struggling, and be patient with the doubting. But when God's Word is clear we must not-and we cannot-back up, back off, back down, back out, or backslide from the truth.”

Ends Shows Struggle Clear Doubt Grace Patient Fallen Be Patient Merciful

Author:Rick Warren

“I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.”

Clear My Family Priorities Cinema

Author:Malaika Arora Khan

“Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.”

People Ifs Way Want Mean Self Action Virtue Clear Hero Hollywood Capitalist Virtuous

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?”

Doe Art Stories Clear Figures Taught Training Complexes Medical Mythology Symbols Ritual Breaking Down Relevance Anatomy Mazes Physiology Anatomy And Physiology Medical Training

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?”

Ifs Mind Realizing Clear Worldly Worldly Things

Author:Neem Karoli Baba

“Well, I think that there's a clear record, I worked with Ronald Reagan in the early '80s and his recovery program translated into today's population of about 25 million new jobs in a seven-year period. As Speaker of the House, I worked with President Clinton and he followed with a very similar plan. And we ended up with about 11 million new jobs in a four-year period.”

“John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers ... and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message.”

Said Kids Reading Clear Messages Warmth John Kerry

Author:David Letterman

“John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh--.”

Way Giving Should Fun Clear Week Fronts Internet Republican Findings Should Have Deny Heat Treatment Runners Old Fashioned Rumor Brows John Kerry Botox

Author:Bill Maher

“Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.”

Want Needs Compassion Leader Clear Followers Stability Influential Wants And Needs

Book:Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

Source: Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

“The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.”

Self Views Clear Mountain Clear View

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.”

Problem Views Clear Criticism Point Of View Alternatives Insult Sarcasm Sarcastic Ridicule Orthodoxy

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.”

Made Fighting Clear Battle Made It Memorable Experts

Book:The Histories

Source: The Histories

“I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.”

Giving Mean Answers Clear Particular Ready Not Ready

Author:Tom Hayden

“I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.”

Ifs Way Strong Can Do Clear Election Odd Objections

Author:Joan Blades

“..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.”

Want May I Can Ideas Different Can Do Clear Amount Percent Conscience Permission Different Ideas Tithing

Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

“Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.”

People Home Clear Pieces Modern New York Thousand Travel Hundred Prison Eight Preserves Abandon Museums Towers Boston Soap Whiskey Posters Pittsburgh

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.”

Source: THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

“Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.”

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit

“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.”

Ifs May Moments Use Path Clear Judgment Beats Mark Checks Pity Flight Clock Gentle Crush Seconds Pace Strokes Hammers Pulse Spooky Old Time

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

“You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed.”

Mind Character Body Interesting Clear Training Weed Solitary Mind And Body Crystals Never Change Muddy Interesting Characters

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.”

Firsts Doe Reality Light Clear Buddhism Method Boxes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.”

Art Desire Clear Possibility Appreciate Limitation Assessment

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.”

Feels Choices Clear Confusing

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.”

Romance Night Quality Clear Atmosphere Prose Doomed Lyrical Stylist Tender Is The Night Scott Fitzgerald

Author:David Nicholls

“Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.”

Clear Female Thorough Loner Spades Kinsey Sam Spade

Author:Lucille Kallen

“Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. And we make it abundantly clear that we intend to commit none of the fatal errors of appeasement. We have the thought that in this nation of many states we have found the way in which men of many racial origins may live together in peace. If the human race as a whole is to survive, the world must find a way by which men and nations may live together in peace. We cannot accept the doctrine that war must be forever a part of man's destiny.”

“The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.”

Growth Clear Danger All Things Weak Perceive Remedy

Book:Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio

Source: Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio