Best Never Quite Words
254 Never Quite quotes by 217 unique authors
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Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart…
— D. H. Lawrence
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In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a…
— S I Hayakawa
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It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow…
— Tom Stoppard
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I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind…
— Geraldo Rivera
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I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
— Gloria Steinem
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When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
— Colin Greenwood
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
— Bryan Ferry
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I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the…
— Carrie Fisher
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My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has…
— Joanne Harris
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Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot…
— Katherine Heigl
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Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never…
— Archibald MacLeish
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I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth…
— Steve Martin
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Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they…
— Helen Mirren
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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them.…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
— Helen Rowland
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure…
— Nate Ruess
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When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective…
— Patti Smith
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I never quite toed the line.
— Dan Stevens
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It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
— Kristen Stewart
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
— Bill Watterson
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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
— Oscar Wilde
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You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all…
— John Irving
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When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
— John Steinbeck
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