Mostly Quotes
1463 quotes by 1203 authors
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There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...
— Simon R. Green
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
— Ann Brashares
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What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words…
— Tom Robbins
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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
— Michael Pollan
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I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.
— Shannon Hale
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Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and…
— Thomas Hardy
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
— Charles Bukowski
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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged…
— Yann Martel
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Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For…
— Noam Chomsky
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You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.
— David Foster Wallace
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Here you go on this long long dream. Don't even try to wake up. Just let it go on until it is over. You will…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they…
— John Steinbeck
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The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish,…
— Ann Patchett
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It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
— Ian Mcewan
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The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero…
— Ray Bradbury
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But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those…
— Truman Capote
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It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us…
— Jon Katz
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For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first…
— Louise Brooks
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