Paces Quotes
38 quotes by 35 authors
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Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a…
— James Jeans
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I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin'…
— Mickey Rivers
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As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run…
— Robert Macfarlane
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I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the…
— Jack Kerouac
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Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we…
— John Steinbeck
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I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.
— Joan Collins
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What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively the domain of…
— Howard Gordon
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The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like…
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked…
— Nicholas von Hoffman
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In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed…
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something…
— Julia Ormond
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
— Bette Midler
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A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after…
— Michel de Montaigne
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There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered…
— Thomas Browne
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The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will…
— Georg Brandes
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Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee,…
— H. L. Mencken
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I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
— Ted Nugent
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We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.
— Jack Kerouac
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That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Who Wrote These Paces Quotes
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