Quotes with number-one

Quotes 661 till 680 of 6069.

  • Bill Bryson And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Brent Spiner And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
    Brent Spiner
    American actor, comedian and singer (1949 - )
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  • Barack Obama And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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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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  • 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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  • Oliver Goldsmith And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Robin Williams And that's when you realize that God gave you a penis and a brain, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
    Live on Broadway (2002)
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And the shark he has his teeth and
    There they are for all to see
    And Macheath he has his knife but
    No one knows where it may be.
    The Threepenny Opera The Moritat of Mackie the Knife in Prologue, p. 3
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Carlton Fisk And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.
    Carlton Fisk
    American baseball player (1947 - )
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  • A. B. Yehoshua And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Dick Gregory And we love to dance - especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
    Dick Gregory
    African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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  • Robert Frost And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • David Hume And what is the greatest number? Number one.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Barbara Bush And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • Harriet Lerner Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
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  • Clarendon Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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  • Brad Bird Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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