Found Quotes
8743 Found quotes by 5106 unique authors
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I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a…
— Alan Price
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It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when…
— James Blunt
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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks…
— Anne Tyler
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I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough…
— Matt Damon
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She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she…
— Laozi
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I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect…
— Velcrow Ripper
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One side thinks the president'€™s request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too spineless and probably…
— Peter Baker
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This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes,…
— Isaac Newton
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Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I…
— Wilferd Peterson
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And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest…
— Paul Robeson
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Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the…
— Daniel Starch
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Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his…
— Paulo Coelho
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No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the…
— Princess Diana
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But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer…
— Heinrich Heine
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Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors,…
— Ralph Gibson
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I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no…
— Nikola Tesla
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What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?
— William Butler Yeats
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Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a…
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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Once you have found yourself and accepted your aloneness, then the greatest blessing is to share the love that arises within you. Each new moment…
— Leonard Jacobson
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When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for…
— Gregory S. Paul
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While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own…
— Bill Hicks
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It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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May the Lord be with us at all times, under all circumstances; may he bring into our lives a burning desire to uphold the Constitution,…
— J. Reuben Clark
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I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.
— Lawrence Wright
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From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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