Quotes with off-shoot

Quotes 541 till 560 of 659.

  • Samuel Butler To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • David J. Schwartz To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • André Gide To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • George Steiner To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs - but a tribute nevertheless.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Leo Burnett To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
    Leo Burnett
    American advertising executive (1891 - 1971)
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  • Bob Lilly Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
    Bob Lilly
     
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  • Carl Honore Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Walters Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Adam Arkin We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Earl Nightingale We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • William Shakespeare We are such stuff
    As dreams are made off, and our little life
    Is rounded with a sleep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carly Fiorina We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Hiller We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Honoré de Balzac We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Cybill Shepherd We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
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  • Brigid Brophy We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Bobby Doerr We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
    Bobby Doerr
     
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  • Antonin Artaud We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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