Quotes with ring-and-thimble

Quotes 2401 till 2420 of 25160.

  • Basil S. Walsh An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.
    Basil S. Walsh
    American banker and author
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  • Bill Dedman An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ring Lardner An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
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  • Jacques Prevert An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
    Jacques Prevert
    French poet and prose st (1900 - 1977)
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  • William Jennings Bryan An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Augustine Birrell An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
    The C++ Programming Language. p.713
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Derek Jarman An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; they extend the ''family.'' I share that sexuality. It was then, is now and will be in the future.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Alejandro Amenabar An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Arthur Erickson Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Matthew Prior And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Barry McGuire And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bob Schieffer And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Arthur Rimbaud And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Christina Rossetti And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Alexander Pope And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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