Quotes with needle-work

Quotes 801 till 820 of 1709.

  • Michael Ondaatje Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle.
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    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Lucille Ball Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Luminous quotations alone, by their interest, for the dullness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Michel Foucault Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Robert Collier Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream, but create!
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Federico Fellini Making movies is my vacation. All the rest - the traveling about to premiers, the social life, the endless arguments with producers who don't understand me - that is the work.
    Federico Fellini
    Italian film director (1920 - 1993)
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  • A. W. Tozer Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Mark Twain Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bill Vaughan Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Mark Twain Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Doris Lessing Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • John Heywood Many hands make light work.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • George Halas Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
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  • Mother Teresa Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Barbra Streisand Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Al Goldstein Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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