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Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own… — Georges Braque
Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of...… — Edward de Bono
Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is… — Edward de Bono
Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind,… — Lin Yutang
Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples. — Robert Graves
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation… — Terry Pratchett
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions.… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the… — Walter Bagehot
I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of… — Claude Monet
In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and… — Arnold Bennett
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of… — Horace Mann
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going… — Freya Stark
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues… — Pablo Casals
I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked… — Pablo Casals
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man. — Horace Greeley
The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism. — Chogyam Trungpa
Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is… — Dinah Shore
You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other… — Ingmar Bergman
I'm happy in Madrid, my kids are happy and my wife is happy, so everything's good. If anyone knows about contracts they take a while… — David Beckham
Who is ready to be a truly independent representative of Minnesota? Who is free of entangling alliances and big money that allows them to represent?… — Walter F. Mondale
If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste… — Steven Pinker
I like raunchiness, not like in a biker-chick sort of a way, but like the girl can't help it. Little bruises, a few hairs out… — Anton Szandor LaVey
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring… — Jane Porter
Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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