Quotes with 40-something

Quotes 1161 till 1180 of 1776.

  • Carl Sandburg Tell him to be a fool every so often
    and to have no shame over having been a fool
    yet learning something over every folly.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • James Russell Lowell Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Willa Cather That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Beth Henley That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • B. J. Daniels That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
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  • Atom Egoyan That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Davison That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Alice Munro That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Doris Lessing That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • George Orwell The ''Communism'' of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart -not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Andy Rooney The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Carlisle Floyd The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Buzz Osborne The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Mark Twain The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Lennon The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • James Kelman The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
    James Kelman
    Scottish writer (1946 - )
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  • Frank Herbert The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Barry Sternlicht The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Josh Billings The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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