Items Quotes
207 quotes by 193 authors
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
— Igor Stravinsky
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Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
— Auguste Escoffier
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We had a strong back-to-school season and discretionary spending on low-priced items has trended higher. These are good indications for Halloween, which typically sets the…
— Richard Hastings
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The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say…
— S. D Gordon
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Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature,…
— Gregory Bateson
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Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.
— John Logie Baird
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A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of…
— Rachel Maddow
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Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of…
— Dave Barry
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist…
— Edward Said
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All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying…
— James Connolly
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Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine…
— George Orwell
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People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more…
— Ted Simon
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Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.
— Scott Belsky
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I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. Theyve perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.
— Tom DeLonge
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I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the…
— Harri Holkeri
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There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing…
— Lionel Tiger
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The main purpose of production is to manufacture items of good quality for daily use in abundant supply, thereby enhancing and improving the life for…
— Konosuke Matsushita
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Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and…
— Kurt Bills
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One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's…
— Georgina Chapman
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