Always Struck Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the…
— Carl Sagan
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Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into…
— Rodney Mullen
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I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to…
— Frank Rich
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One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge…
— Daniel Tammet
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The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
— Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers…
— Lord Dunsany
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It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed…
— George Friedman
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The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly good at numbers,…
— Richard Branson
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Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories…
— George Lucas
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to…
— William Eldridge Odom
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I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can…
— Kenneth Lonergan
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When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you…
— Carlisle Floyd
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What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in…
— Andrew Schneider
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
— David Hockney
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The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was…
— Terry Pratchett
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It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he…
— Jo Nesbo
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