Quotes with jack-of-all-trades

Quotes 2041 till 2060 of 6348.

  • Marguerite Duras I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Armistead Maupin I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Rosa Parks I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • George Carey I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
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  • Thomas Carlyle I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Albert Schweitzer I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Walters I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Erica Jong I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Alice Munro I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Arvo Part I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
    Arvo Part
    Estonian composer
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  • Bryan Cogman I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all. It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
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    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anthony Holden I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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