Quotes with bread-lines

Quotes 61 till 80 of 126.

  • Gabriel Heatter Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billie Holiday Money, you've got lots of friends
    Crowding round the door
    When you're gone, spending ends
    They don't come no more
    Rich relations give
    Crust of bread and such
    You can help yourself
    But don't take too much.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Al Capone My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Thomas Hood Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
    Thomas Hood
    English poet, author and humorist (1799 - 1845)
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  • Anita Diamant One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • James Baldwin People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Billy Collins Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bette Davis Pray to God and say the lines.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bee Wilson Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Cass Sunstein Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogmatic, more unified, and more extreme. Personalized Facebook experiences are a breeding ground for misunderstanding and miscommunication across political lines and, ultimately, for extremism.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Eric Gill Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
    Eric Gill
    English sculptor and typeface designer (1882 - 1940)
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  • James P. Hogan Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and con
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  • Wes Smith Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
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  • Tryon Edwards Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Lewis Thomas Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • David Gemmell Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.
    Stormrider (2002) 5
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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