Quotes with three-fourths

Quotes 401 till 420 of 424.

  • A. C. Swinburne While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Confucius Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bill Maris With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Aldous Huxley Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Albert Camus Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Walter Benjamin Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Mark Twain Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Francoise Sagan Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Yogi Berra Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • David Garrick You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
    David Garrick
    English actor and playwright (1717 - 1779)
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  • Carlos Ghosn You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Anne Dudley You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Barry Manilow You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci [Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Carl Sandburg A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
    Variation of izquotes.com/quote/162233
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Allen Tate I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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