Quotes with old-time

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  • Auberon Waugh Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
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  • Buddy Rice Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
    Buddy Rice
    American racecar driver (1976 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Samuel Butler Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sydney Smith Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Carroll Quigley Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • John Ruskin Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Edwin P. Whipple Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Thomas Szasz Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • A.L. Rowse Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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  • Booth Tarkington Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Candice Swanepoel Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.
    Candice Swanepoel
    South African model and philanthropist (1988 - )
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  • Cab Calloway Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Bill James Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Laurence J. Peter Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • William Wordsworth But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Andrew Marvell But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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