Quotes with down-to-earth

Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1333.

  • Bob Knight When my time on earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Ben Huh When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • Mark Twain When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bob Hope When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Samuel Ullman When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally - as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing - if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Bell Hooks When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bill Nye When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Orson Welles When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bruce Dickinson When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Billy Porter When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Alan Cohen When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Jeremy Taylor When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Carl Sagan When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Cass McCombs When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Will Rogers When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - well, that's Memoirs.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Calvin Coolidge When you see 10 troubles rolling down the road, if you don't do anything, 9 of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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