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Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are… — Grant Achatz
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny… — A. S. Byatt
As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear. — Troy Garity
Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into… — Elisabeth Hasselbeck
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its… — George Bernard Shaw
It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never… — Gwyneth Paltrow
I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi — Anita Brookner
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or… — Douglas Fairbanks
Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike — Plato
Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods. — Henry Louis Mencken
The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist… — Henry Louis Mencken
It is a sort of waking dream, which, though a person be otherwise in sound health, makes him feel symptoms of every disease; and, though… — Unknown Author
People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an… — Bill Maher
Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas. — Jonathan Miller
It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going to… — Leonardo DiCaprio
I know nothing about racing and any money I put on a horse is a sort of insurance policy to prevent it winning. — Unknown Author
Once upon a time in a galaxy not entirely unlike our own, there was a girl. There was nothing extraordinary about this girl. She was… — Dawsons Creek
Take heed, be wary how you place your words;Talk like the vulgar sort of market menThat come to gather money for their corn. — William Shakespeare
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or… — Ambrose Bierce
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false… — George Orwell
And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why… — Bible
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of… — Unknown Author
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with… — Lord Chesterfield
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. There's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty,… — JD Salinger
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and… — George Bernard Shaw

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