Exact Quotes

734 Exact quotes by 612 unique authors

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. — Elia Kazan
I love wearing the exact same thing all the time because I think it makes you like a cartoon character. They always wear the same… — Kesha
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty. — Steig Larsson
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in… — William Law
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. — Stephen Leacock
Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be… — Sandra Lee
I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every… — Rush Limbaugh
The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved,… — Kenny Loggins
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. — Andre Maurois
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. — Earl Nightingale
Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the… — Susan Orlean
We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are… — Trey Parker
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. — Antonio Porchia
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. — Paula Poundstone
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to… — Pliny the Elder
I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look for me. My feeling is,… — Julia Roberts
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. — Bertrand Russell
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not… — George Sand
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. — George Santayana
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. — Walter Scott
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness… — Will Self
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the… — Zadie Smith
I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people… — Britney Spears
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. — Ralph Steadman

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