Quotes with half-heard

Quotes 201 till 220 of 535.

  • Horace Mann I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • John Ruskin I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Marcel Marceau I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
    Marcel Marceau
    French artist (1923 - 2007)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Walt Whitman I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Robert McCloskey I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant
    Robert McCloskey
    American writer (1914 - 2003)
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  • Ray Bradbury I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
    Alice Hoffman
     
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  • Bryan Greenberg I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Beatrix Potter I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
    Source: Journal entry
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • A. E. Housman I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 75 (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Stendhal I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Zig Ziglar I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Barry J. Farber I was the only one there I never heard of.
    Barry J. Farber
    American entrepreneur, sales consultant and author
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  • Emily Brontë I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
    Source: Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XII)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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