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Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions. — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally. — I. J. Good Copy Share Image
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home! — Tyler Ward Copy Share Image
I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. — Chely Wright Copy Share Image
A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialog with God. If he said… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin… — Ascanio Sobrero Copy Share Image
Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around -… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Growing up I never had a perfume. I was like oh, one day when I'm grownup and have money I'm going to… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
If you desire to find the true spirit of Christmas and partake of the sweetness of it, let me make this suggestion… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
There are numbers of different types of partnerships or pairings that may exist in society that aren't same-gender sexual relationships that provide… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many… — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three… — Don Adams Copy Share Image
my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at… — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel. — John Weitz Copy Share Image
God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart,… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
