Onto Quotes
1375 Onto quotes by 1040 unique authors
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
— Ivan Turgenev
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that…
— Gabrielle Union
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your…
— Eddie Vedder
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A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto…
— Ayelet Waldman
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There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are…
— Mike Wallace
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Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of…
— Joss Whedon
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Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile…
— James Young
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Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from…
— Helen Fisher
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When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a…
— Evgeny Morozov
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I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought…
— John Oliver
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Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend.…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.
— Woody Allen
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Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.
— Margaret Atwood
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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
— Michael Cunningham
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Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.
— Mary Oliver
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My job, my mission, the reason I’ve been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin’ with me. Yeah,…
— Steve Irwin
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He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read.…
— John Bellairs
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[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could…
— Steve Martin
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A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her…
— Ian Mcewan
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...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in…
— John Kennedy Toole
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An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody…
— Toni Morrison
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But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version…
— Stephen Fry
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Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to…
— Arundhati Roy
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