Seven Quotes

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It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it. — C. J. Dennis
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero… — Pete Rose
I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home… — Nolan Ryan
At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He… — Edward Abbey
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand. — Edward Abbey
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city. — Alexander Woollcott
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves,… — John Hume
The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries… — Sappho
We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran — Wesley Clark
Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired… — Emanuel Lasker
I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag… — Saul Bellow
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than… — Philip Pullman
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. — Mary Augusta Ward
From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation… — John A. Lejeune
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It… — Ernest Hemingway
For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way… — Jackie Stewart
The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am… — Helen Keller
On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight — Marion Zimmer Bradley
For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches,… — Osama bin Laden
I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at… — Wally Wood
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle
She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon… — John Flavel

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