His Quotes
8811 His quotes by 4969 unique authors
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Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I…
— Bianca Jagger
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Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.
— Howard Hughes
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For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he…
— Roger Bacon
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General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
— Henry James
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An actors' tribute to me is in his work.
— Lee Strasberg
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The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
— Lee Strasberg
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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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A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both…
— Jacques Barzun
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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
— Horace
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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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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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
— Elizabeth Bishop
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The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
— Robert Lowell
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I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's…
— Mike Huckabee
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
— Arthur Miller
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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
— Willem de Kooning
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I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to…
— Condoleezza Rice
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him…
— Raymond Chandler
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in…
— Warren Christopher
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