Quotes with well-read

Quotes 701 till 720 of 1813.

  • Bruce McCulloch Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Agnes Repplier It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Lewis Thomas It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
    My early life (1930)
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Umberto Eco It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Albert Camus It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Barnett Newman It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Campbell Newman It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • George Santayana It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Russell Lynes It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Ben Jonson It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
    Letter (8 November 1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Marcia Wieder It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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