Quotes with english-only

Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 3972.

  • Alan Dundes My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Bill Engvall My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Tiger Woods My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
    Tiger Woods
    American professional golfer (1975 - )
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  • Barry Hannah My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Edward Gibbon My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Casey Affleck My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Bella Thorne My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Pete Rose My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
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  • Bill Burr My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is when I'm off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Bradford Dillman My feeling is that you should try to do the things you enjoy most in life. I chose acting as a career because I enjoyed it then as I do now. The only question for me then was, 'Can I make a living at it?'
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  • Bob Marley My feet is my only carriage.
    No Woman, No Cry
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Philip Roth My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
    Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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