Days Quotes
8466 Days quotes by 5082 unique authors
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
— Edward Abbey
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There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with…
— Edward Abbey
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These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I…
— John Banville
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Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone, thats true. But…
— Julian Barnes
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're…
— Zadie Smith
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I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do.…
— Rod Stewart
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All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very…
— Annie Leibovitz
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You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the…
— Galen Rowell
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Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might…
— Terry Pratchett
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I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used…
— Adam Duritz
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which…
— Samuel Johnson
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
— Carl Rogers
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In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all…
— Rafael Nadal
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I try to enjoy what I do, and every moment of the life that I have is a blessing. What else can you do but…
— Novak Djokovic
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If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends,…
— Ivan Lendl
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Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide…
— Helen Fielding
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God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter…
— Malcolm Lowry
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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
— Elizabeth Bishop
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I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the…
— Vannevar Bush
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Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.
— Joseph Brodsky
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and…
— Ivan Turgenev
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I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what…
— Paul Broun
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