Combinations Quotes
171 quotes by 148 authors
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I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way…
— Joan Bauer
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The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I…
— William Jackson
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When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and…
— Laurie Colwin
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You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and…
— Eric Hoffer
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Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses…
— Jerry Saltz
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In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.
— John F. Carlson
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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said 'refudiate.' It's not a word – you have refute and repudiate, and she combined them. A…
— David Letterman
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The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming,…
— Maria Popova
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In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.
— Frederick Lenz
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God plans all perfect combinations.
— David Brainerd
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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of…
— Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws;…
— Honore de Balzac
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You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and…
— Grimes
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
— Norman Mailer
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