Bringing Quotes
1212 Bringing quotes by 1028 unique authors
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bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.
— Tom Waits
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You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a…
— Michael Ondaatje
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You're dying right now. Right this minute.' He looked at his watch, said, 'Right this second,' then tapped it with his finger. 'See there? That…
— Billie Letts
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Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard…
— Anne Lamott
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Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will…
— Alan Paton
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Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest…
— Rafael Sabatini
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Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a…
— Frances Mayes
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Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri,…
— China Mieville
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She reminded me of what it did to her when I left — what it still does to her when I leave. She feels horrible…
— Stephenie Meyer
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There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.
— Jan Karon
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Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways…
— Rollo May
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Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut." Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward…
— Eoin Colfer
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There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark:…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and…
— Kristin Cashore
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
— Terry Pratchett
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I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large…
— Jasper Fforde
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Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy…
— Kathryn Lasky
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We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.
— Jim Rohn
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Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad…
— David Sedaris
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We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally,…
— Sarah Dessen
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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!
— Leo Tolstoy
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