Local Quotes
1172 quotes by 970 authors
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had…
— Evelyn Waugh
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You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm; it…
— Rajneesh
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You forget, darling, I am the local psychopath." ~Clayton Danvers, Bitten
— Kelley Armstrong
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When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could twirl and jump,…
— Gayle Forman
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Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the “suspicious behavior†bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants…
— Stephen King
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If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But…
— Ronald Reagan
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We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
— Joseph Campbell
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As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God…
— Philip Yancey
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Where are the dogs?" I asked. "At training," he said. "I have a friend who's an expert dog trainer, and he's giving them some stealth…
— Richelle Mead
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Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I looked where he was tapping. "Local Girl Missing, Feared Dead" Beneath it was a photo or me-my most recent school photo. "Oh no." My…
— Meg Cabot
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Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet…
— Meg Cabot
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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we…
— Thomas Paine
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An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the…
— Annie Dillard
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In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands…
— Nhat Hanh
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We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are…
— B. C. Forbes
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