Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 3741 till 3760 of 12035.

  • Giuseppe Garibaldi I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
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  • Aaron Eckhart I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Robert Frost I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Douglas Adams I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Man Ray I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
    Man Ray
    American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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  • Alain de Botton I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Jane Austen I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Anthony Holden I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Buddy Rich I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Anne Stevenson I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • William Morris I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Queen Victoria I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Anton Chekhov I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Henry David Thoreau I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • V.S. Naipaul I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Edith Cavell I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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