Quotes with stand-off

Quotes 581 till 600 of 945.

  • Caroline Wozniacki Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Francis Quarles Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Toni Morrison Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Sammy Davis Jr Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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  • Jonathan Swift Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Richard Dawkins Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Seneca See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • John Irving Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Jonathan Franzen Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.
    Source:  (2012)
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Barry Pepper Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
    Barry Pepper
    Canadian-American actor (1950 - )
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  • Dave Barry Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Bob Dylan She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert She's definitely an angel sent from above. How can that not rub off on a man? What can I say? I'm a mama's boy.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bill Watterson Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Calvin Harris Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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