Quotes with never-born

Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 3340.

  • Oliver Cromwell Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Marva Collins Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
    Marva Collins
    American educator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Ben Hecht Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Marquis de Sade Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Oscar Wilde Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Octave Mirbeau Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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  • Bruce Vilanch Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Alexander Scriabin My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
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  • Ben Elton My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Mae West My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Robert Montgomery My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Bhagat Singh My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Billy Wilder My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Brendon Burchard My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg My character is just an extension of me. The in-ring work, the things that will always be said about me: Big, overbearing, powerful, in-your-face, couldn't wrestle - I never needed to wrestle. Why did I need to learn how to wrestle? Did Hulk Hogan need to learn how to wrestle? Nope. Is Hulk Hogan a good athlete? Nope.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bob Balaban My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Bob Balaban My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Brad D. Smith My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Bode Miller My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • W. H. Auden My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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