Quotes with take-home

Quotes 461 till 480 of 1712.

  • Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Miller I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Agnes Macphail I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Tom Stoppard I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Alan Paton I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Plato I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Busta Rhymes I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Alan Bean I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
    Alan Bean
    American naval officer and aviator (1932 - 2018)
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  • Wyndham Lewis I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Brooke Burke I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ben Affleck I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
    Source: Interview Parade, 14-10-2007
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Andy Warhol I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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