Quotes with looking-glasses

Quotes 101 till 120 of 384.

  • 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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  • Buzz Osborne I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Rosa Parks I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Bronson Pinchot I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.
    Bronson Pinchot
    American actor (1959 - )
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  • Bryan Callen I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Isadora Duncan I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Burt Shavitz I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Bill Bryson I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Frank Moore Colby I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Charles Dickens I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • John Irving I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
    A prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • John Cleese I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
    John Cleese
    English actor, comedian and producer (1939 - )
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  • Ben Hecht I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Adele I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Dr. Seuss I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
    Dr. Seuss
    American children's author, poet, and cartoonist (1904 - 1991)
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  • Theodor S. Geisel I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
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  • Bruce Forsyth I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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