Adding Quotes
432 quotes by 396 authors
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Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase.…
— Gloria Steinem
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I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the…
— Jane Austen
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As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung…
— Robert Breault
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There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.
— Robert Breault
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I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a…
— Gary Saul Morson
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Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men…
— Phyllis McGinley
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to…
— Alice Meynell
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My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and…
— Ron Moody
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Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding…
— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed…
— Chaim Weizmann
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Traditional local media are adding local search capabilities to their sites so they can share in the local search traffic and ad revenues in the…
— Marc Ostrofsky
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Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.
— Alexandra Roach
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As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to…
— Amy Waldman
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One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time…
— Matt Mullenweg
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Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed…
— Clive James
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An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of…
— Nikola Tesla
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Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The most enjoyable part in writing a series is being able to visit a world I have created and revisit old friends. The challenges are…
— Christine Feehan
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Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But…
— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide…
— Jack Dorsey
Who Wrote These Adding Quotes
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