Remarkably Quotes
169 quotes by 162 authors
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Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
— James Surowiecki
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The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has…
— Martin Filler
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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what…
— Alan Alda
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It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this…
— J. R. Moehringer
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Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
— Garth Nix
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Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one…
— Peter McWilliams
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Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.
— Cassandra Clare
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She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly…
— Cassandra Clare
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The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way…
— Terry Pratchett
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What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps…
— Hermann Hesse
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My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.
— Georgette Heyer
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Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the…
— Neil Gaiman
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Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Elodin looked at me. "What a remarkably honest threat," he said. "Normally they're much more growlish and gristly than that." "Gristly?" I asked, emphasizing the…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together…
— Neil Gaiman
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So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to…
— Jonathan Edwards
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swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.†Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s…
— Ilona Andrews
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Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.
— John Elder Robison
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A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines,…
— Neil Gaiman
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