Quotes with can’t

Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 6248.

  • Woody Allen I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Alice Munro I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Audre Lorde I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Tennessee Williams I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Bob Dylan I can't stand to see myself on television.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Billie Holiday I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Dorothy Parker I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Gloria Steinem I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Fred A. Allen I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • John Cage I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Simone Weil I can, therefore I am.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Martin Luther I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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