Quotes with one-third

Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 6002.

  • Walter Matthau I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
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  • Fred A. Allen I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Ann Rule I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Joan Didion I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it.
    Source:  (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Clarence Darrow I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • James Baldwin I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Thornton Wilder I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Bruno Tonioli I am down-to-earth and not one of those starry, up-their-own-butt celebrities.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.
    Source: The Man Who Was Thursday
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Simone Weil I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
    Source: Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Marie Curie I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
    Marie Curie
    French physicist, radioactivity pioneer, 2x Nobel Prize winner (1867 - 1934)
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  • William Shakespeare I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
    Source: Othello I, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
    Source: The Temple of Death
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Horace Walpole I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Lord George Byron I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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