Best Occasional Thoughts
296 Occasional quotes by 254 unique authors
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I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing…
— Jennifer Gilmore
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The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate,…
— Peter York
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The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous,…
— Harland Miller
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Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit,…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
— Mark Twain
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The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A…
— Walter J. Phillips
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My readership seems to be the sensitive people, for the most part. Then there are the occasional fans who are like, "Ah, video games!"
— Bryan Lee O'Malley
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I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps…
— Arjun Rampal
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The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
— Robertson Davies
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
— Brian Eno
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In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.
— Neil Patrick Harris
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Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
— Dean Kamen
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Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall…
— A J Liebling
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A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
— Groucho Marx
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional…
— Dee Dee Myers
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No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water.…
— Anna Neagle
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
— Olivia Newton-John
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
— Ted Nugent
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I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the…
— Susan Orlean
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Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the…
— John Piper
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Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
— Dennis Prager
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There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by…
— Anne Rice
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