Mostly Quotes
1463 quotes by 1203 authors
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I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and…
— Lara St. John
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In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that…
— William Bligh
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You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when…
— Thomas Perry
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I mostly built stuff that I liked.
— Mark Zuckerberg
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Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening. You have to…
— Jimmy Herring
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Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
— Mark Poster
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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
— Sarah Zettel
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The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to…
— William Maxwell
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You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that.…
— Fleur Adcock
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
— Yuri Milner
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Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.
— Anthony Gregory
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I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll…
— Blythe Danner
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Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.
— Graeme Murphy
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Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will…
— Merle Shain
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Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.
— Colin Fletcher
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a…
— Anatole Broyard
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I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
— Marilyn Hacker
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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They…
— Marilyn Hacker
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Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
— David Abram
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I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some good work overall.…
— David Icke
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