Mostly Quotes
1463 quotes by 1203 authors
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Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.
— Stephen King
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I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G…
— Rick Riordan
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I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been…
— David Levithan
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As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could…
— Chris Bohjalian
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Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd…
— Richelle Mead
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And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by…
— Veronica Roth
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June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you." "I hear about you a…
— Marie Lu
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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
— Mark Twain
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I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.
— Lauren Conrad
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There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am…
— George A. Sheehan
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Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
— Stephen Colbert
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Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.
— Rashida Jones
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I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.
— Yngwie Malmsteen
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And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive,…
— Pico Iyer
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes…
— Anais Nin
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Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent,…
— Robin Williams
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A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order…
— Carl Linnaeus
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This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant…
— Ann Hood
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