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Quotes 841 till 860 of 1572.

  • Bernard Cornwell One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Oscar Wilde One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • B. Joweit One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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  • Laurence Sterne One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
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  • Robert Collier One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Louis Kronenberger One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • George Eliot One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • André Gide Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
    Original: Les choses les plus belles sont celles que souffle la folie et qu'écrit la raison.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Lord Acton Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • F. Swinnerton Other people are very like ourselves: they are shy and well meaning.
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Butch Trucks Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • John Milton Our country is where ever we are well off.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Blair Underwood Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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