Quotes with courtier-like

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  • Camille Paglia Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Nicholas Boileau Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Christina Rossetti Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Elie Wiesel Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Marquis de Sade Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Arthur Golden Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them? If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Hector Hugh Munro Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Bill Flores House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Marcelene Cox Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Fawn M. Brodie Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Bob Dylan How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • William Shakespeare How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben Gibbard How I wish you could see the potential
    The potential of you and me
    It's like a book elegantly bound, but
    In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
    You got to spend some time with me
    And I know that you'll find love
    I will possess your heart
    Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • William Shakespeare How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bill Hicks How much do you smoke, sir? Two packs a day, is that right? Pussy. I go through two lighters a day. That's right, two lighters! You're a health nut compared to me. You're like the Jack LaLanne of smokers compared to me.
    Flying Saucer Tour Vol. I
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Brian Tracy How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • George Eliot Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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