Quotes with first-rate

Quotes 1501 till 1520 of 1569.

  • Oscar Wilde While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Condon While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Christopher Marlowe Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Mark Twain Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Hoadly Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
    Sermon before the King of England, 31 March 1717
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  • Christopher Marlowe Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?
    Hero and Leander
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Cyril Connolly Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Asa Gray Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bonnie Blair Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Abigail Van Buren Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Butch Trucks With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bob Ross Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Harry S. Truman Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Carroll Quigley Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life....The first two years are important....of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Jean Paul Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Oscar Wilde Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Bernie Worrell Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
    Bernie Worrell
    American keyboardist and record producer (1944 - 2016)
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  • Camille Pissarro Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Albert Camus Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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