Case Quotes
3360 quotes by 2389 authors
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Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
— William Saroyan
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So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly…
— Angela Carter
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Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe.…
— Eric Ambler
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
— Lloyd Alexander
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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The world is everything that is the case.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant…
— Ernest Shackleton
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Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is…
— Umberto Eco
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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach…
— John F. Kennedy
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The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true…
— Sarah Orne Jewett
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And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to…
— Paulo Coelho
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They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay…
— Amy Jenkins
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As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion was Beirut, where…
— David Sedaris
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Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was…
— Alexandra Ivy
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Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of…
— Wendy Mass
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I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.
— Eileen Wilks
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
— Dorothy Parker
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