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Happiness is like a ball, we run after it and, when we catch it, we kick it.

Quote by Stephen Leacock about happiness

You know "that look" women get when they want sex? Me neither.

Quote by Steve Martin about sex

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages, he's fantastic.

Quote by Timothy Olyphant

I've been a fan of Stephen Hunter, film critic at the Washington Post, for some time. I've always found his reviews to be helpful guides to films.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about opinion, hunters, literary critic, film, time

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about religion, sun

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about poetry

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about poetry, dream, children, mind

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Quote by Stephen Robert Irwin about education, enthusiasm, being

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

Quote by Stephen Robert Irwin about animals

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about opinion, destruction, world

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said: "Is it good, friend? " "It is bitter-bitter, " he answered; "But I like it Because it is bitter, And...

Quote by Stephen Crane about poetry, bitter, heart, good, good luck

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Quote by Stephen Crane about sin

You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew

Quote by Stephen Crane about opinion, god

A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other.

Quote by Stephen Crane about wisdom, victims, man

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, mind

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, quality, good, good luck

It took me years of explorations for discovering what I call my method of digging, which allows me to tell fragmentary past when I needed it.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, past

Lost time: I think that it will influence me, but in the same time it will make me angry for each of my sentences.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about time, influence

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about spring