Solid Quotes
974 quotes by 815 authors
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the…
— Stephen Leacock
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The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is…
— Brander Matthews
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you…
— Joseph Priestley
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Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials…
— E. O. Wilson
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
— Douglas Coupland
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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
— Samuel Johnson
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The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons…
— Ari Fleischer
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In a world that’s gone hellishly mad we’ve always taken comfort in the fact that the faith of our fathers is the one thing that…
— Lon Milo DuQuette
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One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to…
— Franz Kafka
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God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough,…
— Tess Gerritsen
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The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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Here at home, ... while the most likely scenario remains solid growth and low inflation -- subject to the usual ups and downs -- certain…
— Robert Rubin
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
— Barry Zito
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Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows…
— John Austin Baker
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It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at…
— Edward E. Barnard
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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs;…
— Ralph Cudworth
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If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our…
— Nathaniel Cotton
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than…
— A. E. van Vogt
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I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose…
— George Andrew Olah
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