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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.
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Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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Maria Schell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
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Eugene S. Wilson
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
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Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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Hesketh Pearson
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
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Margaret Millar
Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.
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Price Cobb
So little time and so little to do.
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Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
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Sam Donaldson (1934 - )
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
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James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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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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