Quotes with has-been

Quotes 581 till 600 of 5418.

  • Constance Rourke An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
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  • Samuel Butler An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Edmund Burke An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Kahlil Gibran An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • C. Wright Mills An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.
    Source: The Causes of World War Three (1960)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Niels Bohr An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Ayn Rand An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
    Source: Atlas Shrugged (1957)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Basil S. Walsh An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.
    Basil S. Walsh
    American banker and author
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  • Jean Cocteau An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Bob Dylan An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
    It's only people's games that you got to dodge
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Bob Knight And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Albert Maltz And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Ogden Nash And one of his partners asked ''Has he vertigo?'' and the other glanced out and down and said ''Oh no, only about ten feet more.''
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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