Sorts Quotes
734 Sorts quotes by 625 unique authors
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There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
— Angus Young
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If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination.…
— Julian Baggini
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Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt…
— Frans de Waal
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My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral…
— Evgeny Morozov
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I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks.…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking…
— Mark Twain
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There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's…
— Natasha Trethewey
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and…
— Gertrude Stein
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Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
— A. Lee Martinez
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Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.
— Gregory Maguire
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
— Alexandre Dumas
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You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing…
— Anton Chekhov
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For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry…
— C.S. Lewis
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A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding…
— Alberto Manguel
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Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars…
— Brian Selznick
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Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we…
— Jane Green
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That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was…
— Nicholas Sparks
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They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.
— Rudyard Kipling
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Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not…
— A A Milne
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Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange…
— William Gibson
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Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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