Quotes with closed-off

Quotes 641 till 656 of 656.

  • Betty Grable You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • Ray Bradbury You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Elias Canetti A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Jim Morrison A game is a closed field, a ring of death with sex at the centre, and performing is the only game I've got.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Brendan Behan A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Sacha Guitry A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Denis Diderot I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I start where the last man left off.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Andre Breton Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Denis Diderot The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Helen Keller When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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