learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.
Francine Prose
The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.
John Redwood
Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.
Demi Moore
Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
Vivienne Westwood
The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
Marcel Carne
Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
Jeanne Calment
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
Edith Piaf
I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
Daniel Ek
I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.
Richard Virenque
Francine Prose
The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.
John Redwood
Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.
Demi Moore
Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
Vivienne Westwood
The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
Marcel Carne
Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
Jeanne Calment
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
Edith Piaf
I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
Daniel Ek
I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.
Richard Virenque