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That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep… — Brian Clough
Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt… — Brian Clough
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair. — Brian Clough
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I… — Ty Cobb
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar… — Tori Amos
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. — Jean Cocteau
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. — Jean Cocteau
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,… — Jean Cocteau
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. — Jean Cocteau
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. — Jean Cocteau
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. — Jean Cocteau
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. — Paulo Coelho
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his… — Leonard Cohen
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the… — Sam Abell
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. — Eric Alterman
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which… — B R Ambedkar
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. — Stephen Ambrose
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions. — Stephen Ambrose
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. — Stephen Ambrose
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. — Stephen Ambrose
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. — William Ames
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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