Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Thomas Carlyle Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Theresa May Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
    Source: British Prime Minister Theresa May Outlines Plan To Leave European Union (2017)
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Ang Lee Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Ben Affleck Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Candice Bergen Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barry Cornwall Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Alexander Pope Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ben Jonson Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
    Is virtue, and not fate:
    Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
    And her black spite expel.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Camille Paglia Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Frank Dane Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Seneca Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Francis Thompson Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Publilius Syrus Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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