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3257 Across quotes by 2329 unique authors

In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat… — Pope Pius XII
We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people… — Regina Brett
The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I… — Gerhard Richter
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue… — Crowfoot
Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico! — Bob Hope
We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship… — Erma Bombeck
Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their… — Clive James
I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every… — Sam Walton
In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National… — George Soros
The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation. — Bill Cosby
[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and… — Bruce Cockburn
Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I. — Richard M. Nixon
Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop… — David O. Selznick
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set… — Richard Ford
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. — Richard Ford
So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train… — Loreena McKennitt
At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a… — Louise Erdrich
I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across. — Rosemary Clooney
Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas. — Tibullus
We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're… — Don Paterson
I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific. — Miranda Richardson
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that… — Alan Lightman
When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can… — Janet Fitch
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed… — Graham Swift

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