He Quotes
13080 He quotes by 6666 unique authors
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The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
— George S. Kaufman
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative…
— John Hume
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An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
— Henry James
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And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the…
— Lynn Johnston
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My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep…
— Lynn Johnston
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or…
— Ida B. Wells
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My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an…
— Lincoln Steffens
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I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could…
— Angela Merkel
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The best of seers is he who guesses well.
— Euripides
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the…
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
— Livy
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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story…
— Boris Becker
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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my…
— Harold Pinter
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
— Malcolm Lowry
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
— Marianne Moore
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say…
— Archibald MacLeish
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
— Blaise Pascal
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When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.
— Paul Broun
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
— Bat for Lashes
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My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was…
— Christopher Durang
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As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
— Bridget Riley
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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He…
— Willem de Kooning
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He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
— Fra Angelico
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