Besides Quotes
917 quotes by 739 authors
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The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems,…
— Plato
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Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute…
— June Jordan
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And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as…
— Charles Dickens
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The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels…
— Saul Bellow
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A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.
— Robert Breault
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with…
— William Ernest Henley
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In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides,…
— James Joyce
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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,…
— Agatha Christie
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I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I…
— George Burns
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I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in…
— Gunter Grass
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I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the…
— Chuck Lorre
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I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for…
— Don Nelson
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I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved.…
— Jo Nesbo
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If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving…
— Cory Doctorow
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Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of…
— Richard Louv
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them…
— Tamora Pierce
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I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at…
— Gordon Parks
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We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to…
— Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and…
— Aidan Quinn
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