Buried Quotes
718 Buried quotes by 574 unique authors
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Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an…
— Samuel Johnson
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Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
— Coleman Barks
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Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried
— Yogi Berra
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The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
— Norman Mailer
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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to…
— Italo Calvino
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If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or…
— Aleister Crowley
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There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at…
— Stephen King
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Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the…
— Kofi Annan
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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried…
— Claude M. Bristol
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Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab…
— Ben Marcus
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when…
— Cameron Mackintosh
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A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity…
— Mark Twain
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Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth…
— Dixie Lee Ray
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
— Anandamayi Ma
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I lost boundaries as a child that I didn't even realize it and it wasn't talked about back then. You know, it was something you…
— Marie Osmond
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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly…
— Olive Schreiner
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What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
— Susan Griffin
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The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John…
— Russell Banks
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Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.
— Crystal Chappell
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I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
— Peter Agre
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I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of…
— Jennifer Egan
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Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.
— Loudon Wainwright III
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