Quotes with looking-glasses

Quotes 281 till 300 of 384.

  • Alexander Pope The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Samuel Johnson The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ajay Naidu The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Benny Green The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Bram Stoker The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
    Source: Dracula (1897)
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Aleister Crowley The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Burt Rutan The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Al Franken The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Kiran Desai The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
    Source: The Inheritance of Loss (2006) 208
    Kiran Desai
    Indian-American writer (1971 - )
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  • Anthony Holden The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • John Keats The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Casey Stengel The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Olive Schreiner The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Beth Orton The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bill Viola The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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