Six Quotes
2635 Six quotes by 2078 unique authors
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Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men…
— Karen Walker
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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of…
— Beth Richardson Gutcheon
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One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five…
— Henry David Thoreau
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After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around…
— Archie Kalokerinos
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In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.
— James A. Michener
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
— Robert Frost
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Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them…
— Erma Bombeck
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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of…
— Oscar Wilde
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I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
— Brian McKnight
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We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of…
— Robert Kennedy
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A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He…
— Thomas Carlyle
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There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.
— Erica Jong
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A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing…
— Mark Zandi
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A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
— Pablo Picasso
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be…
— Helen Fielding
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The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of…
— George Steiner
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping…
— Ted Allen
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I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.
— Jim Gaffigan
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The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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