I Left Quotes
694 quotes by 587 authors
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When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
— Loretta Young
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When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city…
— Geoffrey Canada
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Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.
— Carl Jung
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree…
— Willa Cather
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That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent…
— Raymond Carver
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A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the…
— David Sedaris
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A crossbow?†Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,†the man said.
— Brandon Mull
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I left my mark on that man.
— Alice Sebold
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The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.
— Allen Ginsberg
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I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you…
— Michael Ondaatje
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In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a…
— Dean Koontz
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And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved…
— Anne Rice
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Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who…
— Khalil Gibran
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I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.
— Woody Allen
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She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with a…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now…
— Alex Haley
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I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river…
— Arthur Koestler
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