Quotes with four-and-a-half

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  • Art Buchwald A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Billy Wilder A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
    Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Adrian Smith A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Mark Twain A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jules Renard A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aldous Huxley A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bradley Denton A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Everett M. Dirksen A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
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  • Samuel Butler A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Carly Fiorina A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • John Steinbeck A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Capper A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Carlo Collodi A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Paul J. Meyer A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Bruce Rauner A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.
    Bruce Rauner
    American businessman, philanthropist and politician (1956 - )
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  • Billy Graham A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan A car for every purse and purpose.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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