Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 881 till 900 of 1030.

  • Caitlin Moran Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Homer Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Edward Gibbon Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Henry Miller Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anita Desai Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Ben Stein Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • A. N. Wilson Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
    Source: First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Benito Mussolini We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Baba Kalyani We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bernard Malamud We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Henry Kissinger We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Epicurus We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Boo Weekley We hunt in Florida, where I live in Jay. I hunt in Alabama a little bit, on my uncle's land. I go to Illinois and hunt with some friends up there. I hunt in Mississippi and Missouri.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jean Paul We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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