Almost Exactly Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's…
— William Faulkner
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The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled: The…
— Jonah Goldberg
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Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly…
— Calvin Coolidge
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I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading. It’s gotten to the point where I feel…
— Evanna Lynch
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Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where…
— Warren Miller
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces…
— Matt Taibbi
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I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books…
— Don Novello
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin…
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old…
— Tom Waits
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a…
— Robert Johnson
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My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.
— Mira Nair
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It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under…
— George Orwell
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He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs.…
— Joe Hill
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David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and…
— Douglas Adams
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After almost exactly three hours, we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a resturant simply marked DINER.…
— Richelle Mead
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As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie,…
— Lauren Oliver
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Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty…
— Tana French
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I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.
— Meg Cabot
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