Quotes with never-was

Quotes 961 till 980 of 2959.

  • Seneca I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • James Baldwin I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
    Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Mark Haddon I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
    Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2005) p. 34
    Mark Haddon
    English writer and illustrator (1962 - )
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  • Buddy Rich I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • James A. Michener I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
    Source: Grunch of Giants (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bryan Robson I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Edward Gibbon I was never less alone than when by myself.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Margaret Mitchell I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • David Bowie I was never particularly fond of my voice.
    David Bowie
    English singer, songwriter and actor (1947 - 2016)
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  • Voltaire I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Adolfo Aguilar Zinser I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
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  • Stephen Hawking I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Barry J. Farber I was the only one there I never heard of.
    Barry J. Farber
    American entrepreneur, sales consultant and author
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