Nowadays Quotes
676 Nowadays quotes by 536 unique authors
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet…
— Dorothy Parker
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know…
— Oscar Wilde
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Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy…
— John Boyne
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of…
— Douglas Adams
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
— Tom Stoppard
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I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a…
— Johnny Depp
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I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and…
— Ray Bradbury
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As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple.…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I don’t know who has it, but apparently other people have been playing it which is why we have zombies cropping up all over the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or…
— Douglas Adams
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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to…
— Agatha Christie
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That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.
— Michael Robotham
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Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible…
— Judith Martin
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What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.
— Neil Gaiman
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There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind,…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
— Oscar Wilde
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There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of…
— John Banville
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
— Oscar Wilde
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Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else…
— Sue Townsend
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What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If…
— Christopher Isherwood
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