Mostly Quotes
1463 quotes by 1203 authors
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The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
— Jeff VanderMeer
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I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would…
— Tom Lehrer
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If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain…
— David First
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While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read…
— Paul Auster
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You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your…
— Paul Davies
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We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do…
— Gloria Steinem
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It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.
— Nas
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Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to…
— Ron Fournier
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I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for…
— Michael J. Fox
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
— Robert Frost
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I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.
— Diane von Furstenberg
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Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power…
— Neil Gaiman
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the…
— Neil Gaiman
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
— Jerry Garcia
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I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
— Jerry Garcia
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I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook.
— Janeane Garofalo
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TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're standing so they…
— Janeane Garofalo
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For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system…
— John Taylor Gatto
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A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to…
— Frank Gehry
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