Strand Quotes
70 quotes by 65 authors
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Of course when you spend four hours in prosthetic makeup and you really are looking at yourself and you see how revolting you've become in…
— Gerard Butler
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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
— Walter Scott
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A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly…
— Kate Simon
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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er…
— Walter Scott
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The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to…
— Bret Anthony Johnston
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book?…
— Daphne du Maurier
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In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
— Walter Scott
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Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Martha says the interesting thing about fly fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Martha. Grow up.
— Jack Handey
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Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or…
— Fritjof Capra
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I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
— Bob Hawke
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I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant.…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
— Winston Churchill
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Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in…
— Oswald Chambers
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light,…
— Sam Abell
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Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how…
— Jen Hatmaker
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We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in…
— Margaret Thatcher
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By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job…
— Robert Quine
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In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.
— William Lilly
Who Wrote These Strand Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 70 Strand Quotes, led by these top contributors: