Passage Quotes

469 Passage quotes by 408 unique authors

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement… — Alan Lightman
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie. — Maurice Jarre
Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. — Sydney Brenner
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear… — Larry Craig
I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another. — Agyness Deyn
One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time.… — Geoff Davis
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None… — H. L. Mencken
The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount… — Ray Davies
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.… — Eric Hoffer
Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority… — John Hoeven
I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order… — Michael B. Jordan
It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground. — Bob Seger
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to… — Roman Jakobson
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict.… — Susan Sontag
The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to… — Michael Bassey
The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one… — Hope Mirrlees
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. — Hank Nuwer
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage. — Craig Brewer
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. — J D Salinger
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this… — Lynn Andrews
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. — Horace
These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought… — Kenji Miyazawa
I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is… — Samuel Johnson
The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage. — Garrison Keillor

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