Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 10185.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer.
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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
The Bright Side of Billy Wilder (1970) -
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark, that is critical genius.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
The Writer and the World (2012) 225 -
An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.
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An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
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An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides.
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An hour ago, a Star was falling. A star? There's nothing strange in that. No, nothing; but above the thicket, Somehow it seemed to me that God Somewhere had just relieved a picket.
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An hour sitting with a pretty girl passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour. That's relativity.
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