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734 Exact quotes by 612 unique authors

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it. — Arthur Miller
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the… — Elias Canetti
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of… — Joan Didion
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. — Julian Barnes
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may… — Walter Benjamin
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death,… — Meghan O'Rourke
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more… — Herbert Hoover
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in… — William Stanley Jevons
Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more… — Ali Landry
Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get… — Paulina Porizkova
It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the… — Bernie Sanders
There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not… — Delia Smith
I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When… — Elizabeth Strout
Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has… — Emily VanCamp
I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction. — Caroline Wozniacki
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering… — Frederick Lenz
A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to… — Criss Jami
But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent. — Patrice Leconte
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid. — Max Weber
No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it.… — Bronislaw Malinowski
No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws… — Thaddeus Golas
My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite. — Skeet Ulrich
It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and… — Matt Damon
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening,… — M. Ward
Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and… — Jennifer Carpenter

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