Quotes with often-told

Quotes 301 till 320 of 1105.

  • Noel Coward I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Ann Richards I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
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  • Abraham H. Maslow I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Bert Williams I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
    Bert Williams
    American entertainer and comedian (1874 - 1922)
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  • E. V. Lucas I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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  • Yves Saint-Laurent I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    French fashion designer (1936 - 2008)
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  • Noam Chomsky I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Francis Bacon I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jimmy Carter I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Marcus Aurelius I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Anne Tyler I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • George Eliot I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Harry S. Truman I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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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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  • Philip Roth I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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