Quotes with time-scale

Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2742.

  • Bill Burr The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Tupac Shakur The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Billy Williams The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Will Rogers The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Gabriel Heatter The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Amy Hempel The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
    Source: Rick Moody (2007) 284
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Amiel The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Baba Kalyani The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Paul Auster The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
    Source: Collected Novels Volume Four (2016) 8
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Brad Feld The pitch should be very clear about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and why I should care. If you can cover those things quickly and precisely, it's easy for me to decide whether I want to spend more time with you or not.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ari Fleischer The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Bob Graham The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • John Lennon The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Alfred Marshall The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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