Quotes with 500-point

Quotes 201 till 220 of 451.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Benny Blanco Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive type of guy. I try to put my female hat on and think how a female would think. If I'm watching 'The Notebook,' I'm definitely gonna cry. I cried during 'E.T.' too.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Bill Mumy It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Butler It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Norman Cousins It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Carl Sagan It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • W. H. Auden It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bob Woodward It's all over, he said to Cooke. You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can show you point by point how you concocted it.
    Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981)
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Ann Veneman It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Brendan Myers It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Barbara Olson It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Don Walk It's easy to point when you can't heal it.
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  • Carmen Kass It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
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  • Bob Thaves It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
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  • André Agassi It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
    André Agassi
    American tennis player (1970 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • William Frederick Book Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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