Something Like Quotes
836 quotes by 713 authors
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside,…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed…
— Jo Brand
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been…
— Frederick Buechner
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To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
— Nicolas Cage
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I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second…
— Kirk Cameron
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I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush…
— Steve Carell
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In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were…
— Julia Child
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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or…
— Harlan Coben
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family's life and experience.…
— Emma Stone
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it…
— John Gregory Brown
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When delivering something like an important letter or other written materials, grasp it firmly in your hand as you go and do not release it…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
— Nellie L. McClung
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Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were…
— Franz Kafka
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In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a…
— Tommy Bolt
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by…
— John Updike
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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
— Oscar Wilde
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Any time a little midget does something like this, you gotta give him a 10!.
— Charles Barkley
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And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure.…
— Lawrence Kasdan
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