Quotes with well-read

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1813.

  • Bernard Pivot People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Elizabeth Taylor People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Bill Allred People who read my magazine wax their turtles all the time. - as Larry Flynt
    Source: Radio From Hell (November 1, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Barry Schwartz People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Ben Hecht People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • John Updike Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Charles Dickens Persevere in a thorough determination to do whatever you have to do, as well as you can do it.
    Source: Letter to Edward Dickens 26 sept. 1868
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bill Mumy Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Grace Kelly Personally, I wouldn't go anywhere important without my own favorite Hermès black bag... I have my jewelry with me in case something happens and I suddenly have to dress up. For me, going out without that purse would seem almost like going out naked. Well, almost.
    Source: Charlotte Chandler - It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock
    Grace Kelly
    American actress (later Princess Gracia) (1929 - 1982)
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  • Beth Littleford Pilot season after pilot season, I read the same part: the wife who rolls her eyes at her somewhat immature husband that she still loves. Literally.
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  • Elbert Hubbard Play needs direction as well as work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • James Baldwin Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
    Source: Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Politeness has well been defined as benevolence in small things.
    Source: Essays (Boswell)
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ben Jonson Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
    To read it well: that is, to understand.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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