Quotes with short-cuts

Quotes 141 till 160 of 314.

  • Jean de la Fontaine In short, luck's always to blame.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Asa Gray In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Dan Cruickshank In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - if totally different in form - from all the romantic architecture of the past.
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  • Armstrong Williams In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Ben Jonson In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
    Source: Memoirs of Jonson And Every Man in His Humour: The Works of Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Henry Miller In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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  • Arthur Machen Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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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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  • Vladimir Nabokov It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Camilla Belle It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Carol Windley It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
    Carol Windley
     
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  • Ben Schwartz It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bob Newhart It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • John Ruskin Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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