Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may… — James Boswell
There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision global democratic revolution into… — Michael A. Ledeen
I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her… — Henry James
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to… — Walker Percy
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our… — Michel de Montaigne
Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which… — Ralph Ellison
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the… — Gary Saul Morson
We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies… — John Hollander
My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which… — Salmon P. Chase
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. — Troy Perry
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this… — Mary Ellen Mark
Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your… — Roy Lichtenstein
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! — Sam Palladio
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation… — Andre Maurois
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. — Gemma Ward
Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound… — Alice Weaver Flaherty
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road. — Kenny Loggins
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy… — Olivia Williams
An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to… — Susan Faludi
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No… — Charles Darwin
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. — Al Stewart
Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which… — Unknown Author

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