Quotes with has-been

Quotes 5301 till 5320 of 5418.

  • B. B. King You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Guy Debord Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Bruce Sutter Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they don't have the stamina; their arms haven't been built up.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Alexander Volkov Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.
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  • Lord George Byron Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bob Dylan Your lover who just walked out the door, has taken all his blankets from your floor.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Peter Mcwilliams Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher - that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.
    Peter Mcwilliams
    American self-help author (1949 - 2000)
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  • Raymond Chandler Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • J. G. Gallimore Your self image is your pattern!. Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns leads your life.
    J. G. Gallimore
    American author
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  • Roger Vadim Youth has become a class.
    Roger Vadim
    French film director (1928 - 2000)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Oscar Wilde Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Clinton [George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
    Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin [Soldier speaking to another soldier:] Why the hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman?
    LIFE Magazine, 16 July 1945, Cartoon Caption
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Adam Smith “If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm: and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part II (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Elias Canetti A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Ayn Rand A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Thomas Hood A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
    Thomas Hood
    English poet, author and humorist (1799 - 1845)
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  • B. F. Skinner A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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