Quotes with know-it-all

Quotes 2521 till 2540 of 8447.

  • 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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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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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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  • Ezra Pound I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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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.
    Source: The remarkable Rocket
    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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  • John H. Johnson I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.
    John H. Johnson
    American businessman and publisher (1918 - 2005)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Louis Aragon I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Anne Stevenson I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Bryan Batt I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Henry Miller I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Frederick Douglass I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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