Quotes 261 till 280 of 841.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
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How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
Source: Adventures of Pinocchio. Ediz. Illustrata (2012 edition), Edimedia -
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
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However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
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I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
Source: The Temple of Death -
I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Source: Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) -
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.
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