Quotes with has-been

Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 5418.

  • Anna Julia Cooper I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Angela Davis I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Dudley Nichols I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
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  • Alice Hoffman I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
    Alice Hoffman
     
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  • George Washington Carver I didn't make these discoveries... God has only worked through me to reveal to His children some of His wonderful providence.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Anne Stevenson I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Bruno Maag I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
    Source: Grunch of Giants (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Jeanette Winterson I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Winston Churchill I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Galileo Galilei I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
    Galileo Galilei
    Italian physicist (1564 - 1642)
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  • Charlie Chaplin I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Source: Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820)
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Ogden Nash I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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