Quotes with parts

  • A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clear
  • The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
  • The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
  • The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as the other.
  • If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
  • To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
  • Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
  • If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
  • Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
  • A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
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  • Mark Twain It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Congreve A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • William Shakespeare Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Colin Wilson A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
    Colin Wilson
    British writer (1931 - 2013)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Joseph Addison What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Rush A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Bruce Davison Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Bernard Hill Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.
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  • Alexander Pope All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
    Essay on Man 1, 276
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Tacitus All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Ida P. Rolf An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
    Ida P. Rolf
     
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  • Edward Hoagland Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Bill Maris As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Keith Preston Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.
    Keith Preston
    American journalist (1884 - 1926)
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  • René Descartes Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Alec Baldwin Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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