Best Quite Right Quotes
60 Quite Right quotes by 59 unique authors
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I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of…
— Susan Orlean
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't…
— Pat Robertson
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As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't…
— James Surowiecki
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
— Florence Welch
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There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.
— Kim Edwards
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I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the…
— Graham Greene
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You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.
— Gary Snyder
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He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and…
— Susanna Clarke
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You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself…
— Hermann Hesse
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Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off...
— Jenna Blum
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My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you…
— Georgette Heyer
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I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not…
— Rod Serling
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No, Simi. No food. (Astrid) ‘No, Simi. No food.’ You sound like akri. ‘Don’t eat that, Simi, you’ll cause an ecological disaster.’ What is an…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer.…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Rose:i love you Doctor:Quite right, and i guess if it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler... (the doctor fades, him in his TARDIS,…
— Russell T Davies
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One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger,…
— George R. R. Martin
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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists…
— Oscar Wilde
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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece…
— Jodi Picoult
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Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody," said the…
— Lewis Carroll
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But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten,…
— John Green
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Funny,’ Will said, as they picked their way through. ‘Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all.…
— Susan Cooper
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I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will…
— Bo Schembechler
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When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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