Double Quotes

986 quotes by 819 authors

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy. — Jeremy Grantham
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the… — Fiona Shaw
All you need is a double barrel — Joe Biden
The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all… — Ned Sublette
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death. — Miguel de Cervantes
It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a… — Kenneth Oppel
In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I… — Victoria Wood
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was… — Thomas Sowell
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate,… — Bob Dylan
And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over. — Murray Walker
The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services. — Jim Lehrer
Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme… — Elwyn Brooks White
Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less… — Anne Wilkes Tucker
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm a normal sized girl. I'm not a size double zero; I don't weigh 90 pounds. I'm a healthy girl. — Bristol Palin
And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear… — William Shakespeare
Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared. — William Shakespeare
Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility. — William Penn
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere… — Louis Kronenberger
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol… — Thomas Carlyle

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