Quotes with one-third

Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 6002.

  • Charles Dickens I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Abraham Cowley I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Carl Sandburg I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train
    Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Annie Dillard I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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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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  • Robert Frost I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Nathan Hale I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
    Nathan Hale
     
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  • Arnold Schoenberg I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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  • A. J. McLean I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Anne Ford I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
    Anne Ford
    English musician and singer (1737 - 1824)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Anna Held I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Beck I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.
    Source: Spin magazine, December 1999
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Samuel Butler I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Quentin Crisp I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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