Quotes with isn’t

Quotes 341 till 360 of 375.

  • Carole Bouquet What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Cab Calloway What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Susan Sontag What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Alexander Pope What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Stephen Leacock What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Georges Clemenceau When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Casey Affleck When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Bruce Jackson When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Billy Collins When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Umberto Eco When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
    Source: De slinger van Foucault (2007) 615
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Helen Rowland When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Carla Bley When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ben Horowitz When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge - one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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