Quotes with reverse

  • Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
  • If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

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  • Susan Sontag Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Juvenal Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Bobby Flay Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • T. S. Eliot In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Srully Blotnick Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.
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  • Arthur Laffer It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • George Sand It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Ben Horowitz John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Barney Frank Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
    Quoted in Dionne, E. J., The Washington Post, (16 November 2004)]
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Anthony Powell People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • Ben Hogan Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Margaret Young The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
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  • Carl Rowan We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!
    1981 column.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Bill Janklow What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Pablo Picasso When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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