Quotes with dropped

Quotes 21 till 28 of 28.

  • Adelbert von Chamisso The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Anna Louise Strong They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Virginia Woolf Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Virginia Woolf Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bill Engvall When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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