Quotes with after-dinner

Quotes 841 till 860 of 921.

  • Allen Tate What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • W. M. Thackeray What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bruce Lee What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds body feel and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Carlyle What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barbara Castle What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Burton Richter What we're really after is trying to understand what's in the mind of God.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Nora Ephron What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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  • Benny Andersson What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
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  • Bobby Rahal What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Buddha Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Margaret Sackville When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
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  • Wayne Dyer When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Blair Underwood When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Byron Howard When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like, 'Oh, God, there's no way I'm going to see that movie,' because I knew what that movie was, was just two people sitting down to dinner over and over and over again. But then when I went to see it, it was like, 'Oh, they made it work.'
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Bjork When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bill Parcells When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Bonnie Hunt When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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