Appear Quotes
1904 quotes by 1364 authors
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Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred…
— Diane Setterfield
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I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.
— David Foster Wallace
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Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it…
— Saul Bellow
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Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid…
— Douglas Adams
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know…
— Epictetus
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In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we…
— Salman Rushdie
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Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing,…
— Eoin Colfer
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I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something…
— Muriel Barbery
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Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually…
— Robert Rankin
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In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were…
— Janet Evanovich
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It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so,…
— Jeff Lindsay
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Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is…
— Lynsay Sands
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Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,…
— Markus Zusak
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It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a…
— Matthew Henry
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