Quotes with two-and-twenty

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  • Leonardo Da Vinci I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Yves Saint-Laurent I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    French fashion designer (1936 - 2008)
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  • Francis Bacon I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bruce Vilanch I have one rave 'New York Times' review framed next to a flop 'Los Angeles Times' review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
    The Zookeepers Wife (2008)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • E. M. Forster I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • John Irving I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.''
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Moses Hadas I have read your book and much like it.
    Moses Hadas
    American teacher, translator and classical scholar (1900 - 1966)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Lord George Byron I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • John Ruskin I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Babe Paley I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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