Passage Quotes

469 Passage quotes by 408 unique authors

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9… — Billie Jean King
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has… — Vivien Leigh
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in… — Maya Lin
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed… — Maya Lin
Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can! — Christian Louboutin
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month… — Thomas Mann
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only… — W. Somerset Maugham
With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and… — Jon Meacham
Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence… — Robert Muller
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second… — Haruki Murakami
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which… — Joyce Carol Oates
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying… — Steven Pinker
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it -… — John Podhoretz
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are… — Sylvester Stallone
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage… — James Surowiecki
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their… — William Howard Taft
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. — James Taylor
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there… — Henry David Thoreau
I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. — Pete Townshend
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned… — Walt Whitman
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we… — Rowan Williams
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and… — Rowan Williams
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available… — Douglas Rushkoff
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses. — John Irving
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become… — Richard Russo

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