Ilsa Lund (Casablanca)
Ilsa Lund from Casablanca (1942)
Quotes·Quotation by Ilsa Lund
Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund from Casablanca (1942)
¶ Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'
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Dave Barry (1947- )
Dave Barry at the 2011 Washington Post Hunt Author: Amazur Source: Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
Dave Barry (1947- )
David McAlister "Dave" Barry (born July 3, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels.
Quotes·Quotations by Dave Barry
Death·Immortality
¶ What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Barry
Salman Rushdie (1947- )
Salman Rushdie (1947- )
Sir Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: أحمد سلمان رشدی, Hindi: अह्मद सलमान रश्डी on 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent.
Quotes·Quotations by Salman Rushdie
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@ I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
Sir Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: أحمد سلمان رشدی, Hindi: अह्मद सलमान रश्डी on 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent.
Quotes·Quotations by Salman Rushdie
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@ I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
Iain Pears (1955- )
Iain Pears (1955- )
Iain Pears (born in 1955) is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. He was educated at Warwick School, Warwick, Wadham College and Wolfson College, Oxford. Before writing, he worked as a reporter for the BBC, Channel 4 (UK) and ZDF (Germany) and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, UK and US. In 1987 he became a Getty Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at Yale University. His well-known novel series features Jonathan Argyll, art historian, though international fame first arrived with his best selling book An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998), which was translated into several languages. Pears currently lives with his wife and children in Oxford.
Quotes·Quotations by Iain Pears
Beauty
¶ The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind. [An Instance of the Fingerpost]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Pears
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