Sheets Quotes
431 quotes by 388 authors
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it…
— Pietro Aretino
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No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out…
— Lynn Abbey
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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
— Rupert Brooke
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities…
— Vince Cable
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We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth…
— Vince Cable
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Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
— Diane Cilento
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I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping…
— Marina Abramovic
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You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of…
— John Buchan
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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so…
— H. L. Mencken
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A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas,…
— William Wordsworth
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Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look…
— Eric Gurney
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A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
— Felix Morley
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I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white…
— Kofi Annan
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Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all…
— Joy Hester
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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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