Quotes with hit-and-run

Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 25360.

  • Maurice Blanchot A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
    Maurice Blanchot
    French writer and philosopher (1907 - 2003)
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  • Arthur Koestler A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Barry Hannah A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • George E. Mueller A young girl was asked: ''Whose preaching brought you to Christ?'' ''It wasn't anybody's preaching; it was Aunt Mary's practicing,'' he replied. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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  • Berthold Auerbach A.N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Bradley Whitford Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • St. John of the Cross Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • John Henry Newman Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Richard Dawkins Abort it and try again.
    Source: Twitter, 20 August 2014
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Bill Dedman About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Alan Thicke About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Bill Gates About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
    Source: Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in Gates, Buffett a bit bearish CNET News (2 July 1998)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Will Rogers About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Billy Corgan About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.
    Source: Out on a Limb. Details Magazine. October 1996
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • James Allen Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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