Something Quite Quotes
57 Something Quite quotes by 53 unique authors
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Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
— Ernst Mach
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Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.
— Rene Redzepi
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I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness…
— China Mieville
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But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000,…
— Gerhard Richter
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I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but…
— Robert Bringhurst
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I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the…
— Anthony Daniels
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If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of…
— Michael Fassbender
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The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making…
— Lynne McTaggart
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I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.
— David Shrigley
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A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with…
— Bruce Springsteen
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I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.
— Emma Watson
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Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that…
— E. Nesbit
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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we…
— Simone Weil
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As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us…
— Gilles Deleuze
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The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.
— Judith McNaught
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He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly.…
— John Boyne
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A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it…
— Stephen Fry
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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don’t expect anything else. There was definitely a…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how…
— Graeme Murphy
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In a very real sense, Jews have to believe that Christians have missed the point about how to wait for the end, and Christians have…
— David Novak
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There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own…
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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