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One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take… — Douglas Adams
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things… — George Orwell
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising. — George Orwell
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of… — Richard Le Gallienne
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and… — Jonathan Carroll
Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long,… — Epictetus
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how… — Helen Fielding
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a… — John Lennon
I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to… — Ted Allen
Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on… — Jim Gaffigan
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The… — Edward de Bono
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in… — Ezra Pound
I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully… — John Green
My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it. — Paula Poundstone
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. — Lloyd Alexander
Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If… — William S. Burroughs
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had… — John Stuart Mill
If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in… — Eugene V. Debs
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison. — Ugo Betti
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework… — Betty Friedan
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older. — Meryl Streep
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters. — Calvin Trillin
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got… — Nigel Rees
The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a… — Scott Caan

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