Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Vladimir Nabokov The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • John Tillotson The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Augustus William Hare The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Abdus Salam The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
    Abdus Salam
    Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926 - 1996)
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  • William Butler Yeats The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • May Sarton The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Carlton Cuse The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Edwin Markham The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Brandon Cruz The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
    Brandon Cruz
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Max Lerner The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Ben Bernanke The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Lord Greville The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
    Lord Greville
     
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  • Nolan Bushnell The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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  • Paul De Man The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • W. H. Auden The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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