Quotes with hit-and-run

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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Abdul Kalam I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
    Source: Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Kim Basinger I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
    Kim Basinger
     
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  • Anne Stevenson I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Arthur Golden I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Arne Duncan I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Taylor I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
    James Taylor
     
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  • William T. Sherman I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Anna Quindlen I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Rosa Parks I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Audre Lorde I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Kurt Cobain I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Bill Mauldin I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains.
    Source: Up Front
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Francis Bacon I would live to study, and not study to live.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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