Quotes with nine-and-a-half

Quotes 2541 till 2560 of 25371.

  • Daniel Defoe And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • William Shakespeare And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bobby Ray Inman And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
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  • Bainbridge Colby And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Ogden Nash And one of his partners asked ''Has he vertigo?'' and the other glanced out and down and said ''Oh no, only about ten feet more.''
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Aeschylus And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bill Brandt And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Bob Geldof And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • William Butler Yeats And say my glory was I had such friends.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • William Shakespeare And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
    Source: Henry VI 4, 7
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Beatrice Wood And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Berenice Marlohe And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
    Berenice Marlohe
    French actress
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  • A. E. Housman And silence sounds no worse than cheers
    After earth has stopped the ears.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 4
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Albrecht Durer And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Bruce Nauman And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Barry Humphries And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
    Source: My Life as Me: A Memoir
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Alice Walker And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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