Quotes with dim-witted

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  • Bill Bryson We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Barry Cornwall All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Philip Roth I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Antoine Rivarol It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Maurice Chevalier Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
    Maurice Chevalier
    French actor and comedian (1888 - 1972)
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  • William Shakespeare O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Tennessee Williams Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Milan Kundera The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Aldous Huxley The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Audre Lorde There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Norman Douglas There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Buzz Aldrin We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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