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328 Striking quotes by 288 unique authors

...as long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role… — Noam Chomsky
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan
Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need… — Daniel Dennett
I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a… — Agnetha Faltskog
Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had… — Charles Darwin
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles. — Jack Huston
Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind. — Elvis Presley
Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like… — Will Hermes
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main… — B. H. Liddell Hart
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant,… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension that oozes from… — Paul Gigot
The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual,I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have… — Joseph Stiglitz
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature… — Edgar Degas
Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for… — Vincent Van Gogh
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment. — Abraham Maslow
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes. — Glenn Gould
When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what I've found striking… — Benjamin Bratt
Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding… — Stuart Kauffman
A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro… — Joan Miro
The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some… — Max Planck
When you train, you should train as if on the battlefield. Make your eyes glare, lower your shoulders and harden your body. If you train… — Anko Itosu
One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner.… — Neil Genzlinger
When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account... — Hiroko Sakai
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a… — Romain Gary
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than… — James Madison

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