Ransack Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover…
— Michel Foucault
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Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished.…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he…
— Joshua Reynolds
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The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for…
— Patrick Henry
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Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.
— George Steiner
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When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility…
— Tom Stoppard
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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
— Virginia Woolf
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What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the…
— Woody Allen
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I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
— Virginia Woolf
Who Wrote These Ransack Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Ransack Quotes as follows: