Quotes with double-meanings

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  • Peter Brook 'Reality' is a word with many meanings.
    Peter Brook
    British theater producer and director (1925 - 2022)
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  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Margaret Drabble If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Mrs. Patrick Campbell Marriage is the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
    Alexander Woollcott, The First Mrs. Tanqueray
    Mrs. Patrick Campbell
    English stage actress (1865 - 1940)
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  • Henry David Thoreau On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Harold S. Geneen When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Age, like distance lends a double charm.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Eliot All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Arthur Rock And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Arnold Rothstein Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.
    Arnold Rothstein
    American racketeer, businessman and gambler (1882 - 1928)
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  • René Daumal Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Lord George Byron At twenty three the best of life is over and its bitters double.
    Journal entry of 1811 titled: Four or Five Reasons in Favour of a Change
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bjorn Borg Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ronald Reagan Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Herbert J. Muller Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
    Herbert J. Muller
    American historian and author (1905 - 1980)
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  • Ben Hecht Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Busy Philipps I have the emergency kit in my purse that has double-sided tape and Tylenol, and a small energy bar. I'm the one that has an extra lip gloss just in case.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Gay I know you lawyers can, with ease, I twist words and meanings as you please.
    Fables
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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