Pair Quotes
773 quotes by 648 authors
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Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes…
— William Shakespeare
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Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might…
— Haruki Murakami
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One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!"…
— Douglas Adams
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Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.
— Carol Shields
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I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on…
— Nick Cave
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Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
— George Carlin
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Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save…
— Emily Dickinson
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Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her…
— Denis Johnson
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There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the…
— E. Nesbit
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma…
— Junot Diaz
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On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one…
— William Shakespeare
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Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.
— Flannery O'Connor
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It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.
— David Sedaris
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Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a…
— Ricky Gervais
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Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix's jet of red light: he was laughing at…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.…
— Frank O'Hara
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