Quotes with day-lewis

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  • Lewis Carroll ''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
    Source: Alice in wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Wyndham Lewis ''Revolution'' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
    Source: Alice in wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • C. S. Lewis 'Are the gods not just?'
    'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?'
    Source: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) Orual & The Fox
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Cockburn 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bill Murray 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Carl Lewis 'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bud Grant 'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Bronson Pinchot 'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.
    Bronson Pinchot
    American actor (1959 - )
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  • Bill Dickey A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
    Bill Dickey
     
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  • Joseph Addison A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Adam Sedgwick A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
    Adam Sedgwick
     
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson A day may sink or save a realm.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • William Wordsworth A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Charles Dickens A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Angela Carter A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ben Bernanke A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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