Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1030.

  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • George Orwell Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bette Midler Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Don Marquis Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee You can change friends but not neighbours.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Paul Brown You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
    Paul Brown
    American football coach and executive (1908 - )
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  • John Irving You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
    Source: In One Person (2012) 116
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Woodrow Wilson You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Fay Weldon You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
    Fay Weldon
     
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  • Elizabeth Taylor You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • E. B. White You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Ben Horowitz You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Arnold Palmer You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
    Arnold Palmer
    American golf player (1929 - 2016)
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  • Bubba Smith You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Omar Khayyam You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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