Quotes with back-wounding

Quotes 121 till 140 of 815.

  • Andrew Marvell But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Bootsy Collins But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Ben Folds But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Birch Bayh But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Buddy Rich But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Bai Ling But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bruce Johnston But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Arthur Keith Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Caspar David Friedrich Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
    Source: Caspar David Friedrich: line and transparency (1984)
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Pat Riley Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • E. B. White Commuter - one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; And man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Anne Dudley Composers are always going back to the past.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Butch Otter Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
    Butch Otter
     
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  • Bobby Jindal Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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