Quotes with somewhat

  • His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
  • A critic knows more than the author he criticises, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
  • As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

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  • William Blake ''When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?'' O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying ''Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.''
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • H. Manning A critic knows more than the author he criticises, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
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  • E. B. White A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Bennet Omalu As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Al Oerter As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Bela Lugosi Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Sullivan For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
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  • Evelyn Waugh His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Burt Lancaster I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
    Burt Lancaster
    American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
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  • Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Vaclav Havel I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Thorstein Veblen In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Alice Munro Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Robert Benchley Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Brock Lesnar My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and constantly trying not to get satisfied with where I'm at with my career and where I'm at as an athlete. I'm somewhat happy, but never satisfied.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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