Quotes with color-line

Quotes 141 till 160 of 300.

  • Binyavanga Wainaina It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Bruce Sutter It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Dhammapada Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Tallulah Bankhead Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, ''I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.''
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Buddha Like a beautiful flower full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bruce Coville Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Lucille Ball Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Bess Myerson Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Carl Sandburg Man is a long time coming.
    Man will yet win.
    Brother may yet line up with brother:
    This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
    There are men who can't be bought.
    The People Will Live On (1936)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bill Gurley Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • John H. Johnson Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
    John H. Johnson
    American businessman and publisher (1918 - 2005)
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  • Oscar Wilde Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Diogenes of Sinope Modesty is the color of virtue.
    Diogenes of Sinope
    Greek philosopher (412 - 323)
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  • Billy Bragg Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Caio Fonseca Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • H. Ross Perot Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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