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165 Intricate quotes by 154 unique authors
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Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats…
— Henry Miller
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when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light…
— Michael Ondaatje
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It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The…
— Kate Morton
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In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when…
— Isaac Marion
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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as…
— Philip Yancey
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Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance,…
— W S Merwin
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
— Pat Conroy
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Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness…
— Carl Sagan
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And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one…
— Anne Sexton
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There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing…
— Alice Munro
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And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.
— Terry Pratchett
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As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the…
— Michio Kaku
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I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean…
— Ani DiFranco
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Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect…
— Norman Cousins
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Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative…
— Brandon Boyd
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I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
— King Krule
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My music is more native than intricate or technical.
— Dick Dale
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I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that…
— Helen Vendler
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over…
— George William Russell
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I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the…
— Mick Ebeling
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During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set…
— Martin Rees
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Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon…
— Martin Rees
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Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent…
— Martin Rees
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of…
— Ira Sachs
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