Quotes with well-read

Quotes 221 till 240 of 1813.

  • George Eliot Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Paterson Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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  • William Blake Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Bill Dedman Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.
    Source: Bobby Flays Grill It
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bill Nye Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Hood But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
    Thomas Hood
    English poet, author and humorist (1799 - 1845)
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  • Boris Johnson But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
    Source: Quotes of the Day, The Times, 18 February 2005, p. 2.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are on concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
    Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Carla Bruni But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
    Carla Bruni
    Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Beau Bridges But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Brandon Routh But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis But then again of course I know perfectly well that He can't be used as a road. If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all.
    Source: A Grief Observed (1961)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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