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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul's version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.
~ Laini Taylor
still I cannot see why, in making a version of (say) Theocritus, one should not use by way of preference those names by which he invariably called them, and which are characteristic of him: why, in turning a Greek author into English, we should begin by turning all the proper names into Latin.
~ Theocritus
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
~ Thom Yorke
That's what I tell peo­ple. My of­fi­cial ver­sion of the truth.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Her eye was drawn to a miniature version of Esskay, a prancing greyhound, a true gray one, whereas Esskay was black with a patch of white at her breast.
~ Laura Lippman
one reviewer called the first version of this book "the new Over-50 Shades of Grey"). But
~ Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Wonder made the old chicka-chicka-boom beat so potent it sounded like a syncopated version of Judgment Day.
~ Greil Marcus
There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
~ Thomas Frank
We justify our mistakes, by saying I'm just a human. But we can be more, be a better version of ourselves, if only we have the conviction to try.
~ Lawal Oluwaseun
We can usefully think of the mass-produced poster as an early screen—though a static version, to be sure—the phenomenon now so ubiquitous in our lives. The
~ Tim Wu
Buy the 25th anniversary version, I would have told you. It's got a long intro by yours truly where I explain a lot about the Morgenstern estate and the horrible legal problems I've had with them. That version is still out there and what you are interested in is the same thing that I am interested in—namely, at last, getting Buttercup's Baby published. I
~ William Goldman
A distinctive property of functional data structures is that they are always persistent—updating a functional data structure does not destroy the existing version, but rather creates a new version that coexists with the old one. Persistence is achieved by copying the affected nodes of a data structure and making all changes in the copy rather than in the original.
~ Chris Okasaki
In the Chinese version of exceptionalism, China did not export its ideas but let others come to seek them.
~ Henry Kissinger
When we tell a story we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one. When we write we offer the silence as much as the story. Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.
~ Unknown
So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.
~ Trey Parker
If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some newly introduced incompatibility.
~ Paul Graham
One thinks one is going to the tropics and one finds oneself in the Chinese version of Welwyn Garden City.
~ Paul Theroux
2019 was a distinctive year in my career. While I was lucky to get a variety of roles, one that I found interesting to do was 'Android Kunjappan Version 5.25.'
~ Suraj Venjaramood
I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there, but it's really hard to make it into a Las Vegas version of it because it doesn't look at all like Las Vegas.
~ Baran bo Odar
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
~ Walt Mossberg
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
~ Eminem
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
~ Mason Cooley