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People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

— George Eliot

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

— Elvis Costello

If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

— Daniel Pauly

Brexit is not only not just about left and right. Brexit is about expertise.

— Gavin Esler

If you don't seize that moment you sort of fall behind and get left in the smoke, so it's full steam ahead.

— Masked Wolf

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along…

— Bob Lemon

I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.

— Norman Rockwell

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

— Camille Paglia

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make…

— Peter Morgan

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who…

— Aleksandra Mir

Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I…

— Peter Noone

That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search…

— Martin Scorsese

It was reported that I said I wouldn't, shouldn't have gone to New York. No. I said I shouldn't have left Steve…

— Mike D'Antoni

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left…

— Gary Player

This loss has left me truly heartbroken. Robin Williams was one of the brightest, most loving & wonderful people I've ever been…

— Monica Potter

I don't view myself as a victim of gun violence. I view myself as a victim of a maniac who happened to…

— Suzanna Hupp

There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or…

— Alan Cranston

Demons do not cry. You became a demon, because you couldn't cry anymore right? Humans cry and when their tears finally run…

— Alexander Anderson

Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as…

— Charles W. Freeman, Jr

If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you,…

— Charles Dickens

The terrifying thing in my life is that I am just an actress. And I have to keep pushing it and getting…

— Elaine Stritch

I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand…

— Jens Voigt

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the…

— Desiderius Erasmus

I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes…

— Gordon Brown

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

— Judi Dench

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

— Igor Stravinsky

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

— Edward George, Baron George

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

— Jerry M Wright

I left my husband and I thought 'I'm never dating ever again.'

— Lady Colin Campbell

Someone left you not because we are not enough sometimes they are not enough to us..

— Mariane Corbito

I remember, when I first left Phoenix for L.A. I was 19, and I arrived with just $1000 to my name.

— Ashley Roberts

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

— Kevin McKidd

'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

— Kim Edwards

In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

— Marie Windsor

I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.

— Djimon Hounsou

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

— Randy Quaid

The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.

— Bill Crawford

Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it.

— Michael McDonald

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

— Bill Maher

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

— Randy Pausch