Behind Quotes
6713 quotes by 4130 authors
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The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.
— Timbaland
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It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not…
— Henry David Thoreau
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People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing with me. That's…
— Helen Merrill
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People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on…
— Gabor Szabo
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The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don't have to come to the net to finish points. That's the reason…
— Boris Becker
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Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form.…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting…
— Jason Reitman
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Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Anyone can stay true to your face, it's the people who stay true behind your back that really count.
— Nicky Gumbel
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I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.
— Olivia Palermo
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My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it…
— Wally Lamb
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In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but…
— M.C. Escher
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The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
— Ben Bernanke
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If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language
— Stewart Lee
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Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them
— Marilyn vos Savant
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I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.
— Alain Ducasse
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I don't drive, so one of my assistants drives me to my writing room, and I have a calendar on the wall telling me how…
— Hans Zimmer
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There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the…
— Max Weinberg
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