Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 2921 till 2940 of 9541.

  • Shirley Conran I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
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  • Anne Stevenson I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Jane Austen I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Douglas Adams I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Robert Burton I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Bruce Vilanch I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Ann Coulter I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • David Malouf I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.
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    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Christina Rossetti I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Bryan Burrough I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Mark Twain I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anni-Frid Lyngstad I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.
    Anni-Frid Lyngstad
    Norwegian-Swedish singer and environmentalist
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  • Sir Francis Drake I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
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  • John Gay I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Ann Beattie I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Arlen Specter I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • A. R. Ammons I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • John Adams I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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