Quotes 81 till 100 of 1797.
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
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A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
Jasmine (2007) 12 -
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
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A great many
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A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
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A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
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A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
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