Mainly Quotes
555 Mainly quotes by 466 unique authors
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I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
— Richard Ford
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Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
— Henry Watson Fowler
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I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the…
— William Booth
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My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.
— Ty Burrell
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I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.
— Katie Cassidy
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.
— Curtis Armstrong
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I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that…
— Sharon Creech
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As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great…
— Frank Delaney
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What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which…
— Dave Davies
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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific…
— Gavyn Davies
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Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
— Luke Evans
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The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
— Idris Elba
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I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of…
— Sylvia Kristel
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I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I…
— Markus Zusak
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I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.
— Eric Bristow
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I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.
— Chris Cornell
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Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as a result of…
— Chinua Achebe
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My style has changed and evolved mainly because I've grown to have more confidence in myself.
— Kevin Durant
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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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