Quotes with sticking-place

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  • Margaret Drabble Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Ignazio Silone Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
    Ignazio Silone
    Italian writer and politician (ps by Secondo Tranquilli) (1900 - 1978)
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  • Paul De Man Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Lao-Tzu Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Betty Buckley Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • B. Washington Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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  • Ben Marcus Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Bill Klem Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Cai Guo-Qiang For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Carmen Electra For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Bobby Bonilla For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Schwartz For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.
    Arthur Schwartz
    American composer and film producer (1900 - 1984)
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  • Brooke Burke Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Billy Wilder France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Barbara Cartland France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
    Source: The Guardian (Dec. 24, 1984)
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barry Eisler From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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