Quotes with life-time

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 6709.

  • Alfred Hitchcock For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Billy Al Bengston For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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  • Andrei Sakharov For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Alexander Pope For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William James For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Marquis de Sade For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Cliff Fadiman For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
    Source: Lecture at the University of Maryland (March 2005)
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Amy Hempel For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
    Source: Rick Moody (2007) 202
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Laura Swenson For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
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  • Allen Tate For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Billy Eichner For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.
    Billy Eichner
    American comedian, actor, and producer (1978 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Marguerite Duras For that's what a woman, a mother wants to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Capper For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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