Quotes with sound--some-times

Quotes 2201 till 2220 of 2455.

  • Bill James Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bill Walton Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alice James What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Joseph Conrad What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Augustus Hare What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Bob Parsons What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll What I tell you three times is true.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Virginia Woolf What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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  • Anthony Holden What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Brit Hume What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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