North Quotes
1176 North quotes by 897 unique authors
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
— Banksy
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I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know…
— Walt Whitman
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Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco,…
— Philip K. Dick
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Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and…
— C.S. Lewis
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My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North
— L. Frank Baum
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I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.
— David Sedaris
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For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.
— James N. Frey
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Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a…
— Aldous Huxley
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Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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None. I think we should send a country some cupcakes. You think some cupcakes would cheer up North Korea? Kill 'em with deliciousness.
— Gerard Way
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Love is like the North Star. In a changing world, it's always constant.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can…
— George MacDonald
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The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that…
— Starhawk
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Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken…
— William Carlos Williams
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I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All,…
— William Shakespeare
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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance…
— William Shakespeare
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I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme…
— John Waters
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The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
— Tom Robbins
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But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those…
— Michael Pollan
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He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!
— William Shakespeare
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Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
— Terry Pratchett
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The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound…
— Che Guevara
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