Quotes with hit-and-run

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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Alexis Carrel A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Bruce Dickinson A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Stanley Kubrick A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • Joseph Roux A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Albert Einstein A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Samuel Johnson A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Helen Rowland A fool and her money are soon courted.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Will Rogers A fool and his money are soon elected.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Al Bernstein A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
    Al Bernstein
    American sportscaster, writer, stage performer and recording artist (1950 - )
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  • William Shenstone A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.
    Source: Essay on man, manners and things (1769)
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • William Cowper A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • William Cowper A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Bill Bryson A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.
    Source: Interview with Stanfords Newsletter (June 2001)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Jerome of Stridon A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
    Jerome of Stridon
    Church Father and Saint (347 - 420)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carson Daly A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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