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.
    Source: 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.
    Source: 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?
    Source: 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.
    Source: 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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