Quotes with drawing-room

Quotes 161 till 180 of 279.

  • Henry Miller No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Muhammad Ali No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Brad Henry No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • James Joyce No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Now, of my threescore years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.

    And since to look at things in bloom
    Fifty springs are little room,
    About the woodlands I will go
    To see the cherry hung with snow.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bowen On a metaphysician: A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.
    Bowen
     
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Margaret Thatcher People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Byron Howard People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so they let me annex the figure-drawing classes that the animators had.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Bill Hybels People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules. If prayer is important to you, then you'll find time to do it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Republicans are right to express concern about excessive regulation, and they can do a lot to reduce it, above all by scrutinizing rules on the books and by putting all new proposals through a cost-benefit filter. There's room for plenty of creativity here.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Ben Gibbard Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
    and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
    The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
    Words, Wide Night, from The Other Country (1990)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Robert J. Mckain Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
    Robert J. Mckain
    American author of self-help books
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  • Alan Coren Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
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  • Alan Parsons That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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