Partly Quotes

401 quotes by 361 authors

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of… — Todd Gitlin
Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the… — Daniel Starch
With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not… — Thucydides
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the… — Henri Poincare
Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly… — George Orwell
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed… — Charles Horton Cooley
A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch… — Ernst Junger
So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they… — Francine Prose
I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then… — Pedro Almodovar
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I… — Todd Solondz
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to… — Elizabeth Strout
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another,… — Plato
I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens. — Stephen Colbert
I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. [The topless Interview… — Keira Knightley
This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The… — Bede Griffiths
The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own… — Philip Warren Anderson
Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and… — Annie Dillard
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for… — Anne Stevenson
There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing… — James Young

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