Quotes with bogged-down

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  • George Bernard Shaw The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Karl Kraus The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carl Honore The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen The street's alive as secret debts are paid,
    Contacts made, they vanished unseen.
    Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
    Hustling for the record machine.
    The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
    That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.
    Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen The street's on fire in a real death waltz
    Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
    Man, the poets down here don't write nothin' at all,
    They just stand back and let it all be
    Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Willa Cather The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • John C. Calhoun The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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  • C. S. Lewis The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Brent Sexton The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Carlos Castaneda The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Carey Mulligan The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Calvin Harris The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Mark Twain The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Russell Lynes The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Jorge Luis Borges The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Emily Brontë The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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