Random Quotations

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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.
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Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
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Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
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Unknown
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
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Louis I Kahn
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
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Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
Knowledge is power.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
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Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936)
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
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Elayne Boosler
It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
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Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), 1908
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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David Reisman
One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.
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Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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