Milo Quotes
29 quotes by 17 authors
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
— Heinrich Heine
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It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if…
— Norton Juster
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The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.
— Tom Verlaine
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Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to…
— Michael Chabon
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Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you…
— Robert Breault
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Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of…
— Cornell Woolrich
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Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards,…
— Charles Fort
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Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
— Mary Pickford
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Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very…
— Norton Juster
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But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble…
— Norton Juster
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For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the…
— Norton Juster
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Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to…
— Norton Juster
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And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked…
— Norton Juster
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That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.
— Dean Koontz
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Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily.…
— Norton Juster
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Milo refreshed Rae's drink and said, Talk to her. You need to get it off your chest." Then Milo turned to me and said, "Why…
— Lisa Lutz
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Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the…
— Norton Juster
Who Wrote These Milo Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 29 Milo Quotes as follows: