Quotes with red-letter

Quotes 81 till 100 of 140.

  • Red Skelton Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
    Red Skelton
    American actor and comedian (1913 - 1997)
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  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Aristotle Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Anzia Yezierska Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Anish Kapoor Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Levant Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Edgar Quinet Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Agnes Smedley So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Campbell Brown Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bob Uecker Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Bruno Maag The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Bill Simmons The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Red Auerbach The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • A. E. Housman The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
    Source: The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Josh Billings The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Burnie Burns The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.'
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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