Quotes 581 till 600 of 4101.
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
The Duty of Owning Books (1859) -
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
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Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
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Born down in a dead man's town;
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up.Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA -
Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.
Tim Teeman, The importance of being Childish, The Times, 2006-12-02 -
Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
Rolling Stone interview (2005) -
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
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Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.
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Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall
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Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
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Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.
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Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
A Distant Mirror
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