Quotes 601 till 620 of 10716.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.
Source: Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It -
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
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A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
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A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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