Dropped Quotes
698 quotes by 524 authors
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The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range…
— Patrick F. McManus
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I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started…
— John Bonham
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Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles…
— Unknown Author
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Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book?…
— Daphne du Maurier
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I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me…
— Sparky Anderson
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I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world,
— Helen Clark
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The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.…
— Thomas Sowell
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There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ,…
— John Bunyan
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The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to…
— James E. Grunig
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American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since…
— Michael Pollan
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I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild…
— Stanley Kunitz
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I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me
— Susan Smith
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But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal…
— William Langland
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I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all…
— Stefanie Schneider
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I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.
— Paul Krassner
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That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the…
— Kent Haruf
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The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the…
— Sourav Ganguly
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If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me. Have you read the YouTube comments lately? ‘Man, that’s gay’ gets dropped on the daily,
— Macklemore
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The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody…
— Dick Costolo
Who Wrote These Dropped Quotes
524 authors contributed a total of 698 Dropped Quotes, led by these top contributors: