Pageantry Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but…
— Philip Sidney
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Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we…
— George Carlin
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but . . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.
— Peter Sellers
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If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged…
— John Philip Sousa
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame,…
— Buzz Bissinger
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I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to…
— Al Gore
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
— Adam Lambert
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Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.
— Vera Wang
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I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun.…
— George Carlin
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If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
— Sophie Kerr
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Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or…
— Caleb Deschanel
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What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp…
— Hamish Bowles
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I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the…
— Dennis Miller
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The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and rough…
— Henry David Thoreau
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THE crown translates a woman to a Queen - endless gold, circling itself, an O like a well, fathomless, for the years to drown in…
— Carol Anne Duffy
Who Wrote These Pageantry Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Pageantry Quotes as follows: