Quite Quotes
6696 quotes by 4208 authors
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with…
— Hannah Arendt
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It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on…
— Neil Armstrong
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We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is…
— Julian Assange
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty…
— David Attenborough
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I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking…
— Margaret Atwood
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your…
— Margaret Atwood
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up…
— Margaret Atwood
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they…
— Margaret Atwood
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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also…
— Margaret Atwood
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
— John James Audubon
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I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.
— Jensen Ackles
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I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in…
— Amitabh Bachchan
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The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
— Alain Badiou
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I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say,…
— Christian Bale
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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the…
— Ansel Adams
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to…
— Honore de Balzac
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