Mostly Quotes
1463 quotes by 1203 authors
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Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination…
— Tom Waits
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I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never…
— Pamela Ribon
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We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons…
— Terry Brooks
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Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.
— Neal Cassady
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A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance…
— John Grogan
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Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.…
— Stephen Colbert
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I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
— Bret Easton Ellis
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The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are…
— Wallace Stevens
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Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
— George R. R. Martin
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Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the…
— Albert Camus
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It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
— Aldous Huxley
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I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they…
— Robin Wasserman
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And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.
— Terry Pratchett
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we…
— Maya Angelou
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Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who…
— John Green
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His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words…
— Walter Mosley
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You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
— Neil Gaiman
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I saw my town as if I had just arrived. It was as if I was waking up. You see houses and buildings every day,…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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