Bare Quotes
613 quotes by 509 authors
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Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy compared with the…
— John Maynard Keynes
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You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing.…
— Milton Friedman
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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time…
— Dave Barry
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In the northern hemisphere, always dressing according to the season: bare arms in spring (however cold it is) and woolen jacket in winter (however hot…
— Paulo Coelho
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The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and…
— Mary McCarthy
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The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon…
— Myrtle Reed
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He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing.…
— H.G. Wells
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Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where…
— Hilary McKay
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People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is…
— Shelby Foote
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I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I…
— Rachel Hunter
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I think part of what makes us unique as artists and as singers is that we can bare our souls in front of millions of…
— Shawn Stockman
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The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is…
— Ayya Khema
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Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons.
— Gichin Funakoshi
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No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up…
— Ellen Barkin
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I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.
— David James
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A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot…
— Luis Marden
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My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from…
— Dorothy Parker
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Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
— William Safire
Who Wrote These Bare Quotes
509 authors contributed a total of 613 Bare Quotes, led by these top contributors: