Baskets Quotes
194 quotes by 177 authors
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain…
— Mark Steyn
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A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing…
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of…
— Dave Eggers
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Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.
— Joseph Conrad
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Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food,…
— Diane Ackerman
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The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
— Donald Knuth
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If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless…
— Guy Finley
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We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust,…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm…
— Criss Jami
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If you do all that work of figuring out exactly how writing is done, then it's available to you at anytime, and you can build…
— Mark Salzman
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So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court…
— Eric Alterman
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My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been…
— Tyson Chandler
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We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.
— Henry Cisneros
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as…
— Sam Donaldson
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London…
— Alan Bradley
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What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
— Charles Babbage
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Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated
— Franz Kafka
Who Wrote These Baskets Quotes
177 authors contributed a total of 194 Baskets Quotes, led by these top contributors: