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817 Named quotes by 669 unique authors

...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it… — Kathy Acker
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at… — Bill Bryson
A thing named is a thing tamed. — Joanne Harris
ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water… — Nicole Krauss
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was… — James Joyce
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside… — James Crumley
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place… — Lois Lowry
Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of… — Wendy Mass
We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be… — Shane Claiborne
Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona? — Beverly Cleary
Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after. — Jeffrey Eugenides
I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon. — Charles Bukowski
All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never… — Toni Morrison
Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry… — Harper Lee
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names. — Jodi Picoult
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor… — Martin Buber
I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay! — Steven Wright
I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out… — Jennifer McMahon
On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray.… — James Frey
Fine. Let Ranger get someone else. Trust me, you don't want to be out looking for a parking place on Sloane in the middle of… — Janet Evanovich
We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we… — Charles M. Schulz
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family… — Sherman Alexie
On the three pigs he and his wife own: "We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has… — John Mortimer

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