Fairly Quotes

774 Fairly quotes by 662 unique authors

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should… — Bennie Thompson
That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it? — Eddie Izzard
One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore. — Keith Gessen
I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and… — Ann M. Martin
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy… — Thomas Huxley
I think itâ€™s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that weâ€™re unique geniuses, and the… — Scott Lynch
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. — Alma Gluck
I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly… — Jimmy Nail
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on. — Marie Windsor
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may… — Stewart Dalzell
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new… — William Henry Chamberlin
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and… — Janet Burroway
What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of… — Keith Devlin
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations. — Stanley Schmidt
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I… — Alan Hovhaness
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that… — Lindsey Buckingham
I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips — Clement Freud
As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around… — Kate Smith
I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a… — Graeme Murphy

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