Struck Quotes

675 quotes by 567 authors

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating… — Mireille Guiliano
The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss… — Stephen F. Lynch
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! — Lilly Pulitzer
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when oneâ€™s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another… — Anne Tyler
The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to… — Henry L. Stimson
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something… — Edsger Dijkstra
A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do… — James Keller
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.… — Joseph Addison
There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react… — Swami Vivekananda
To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position… — Sven Birkerts
It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because… — Lucretius
By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. — William Shakespeare
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale. — Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a… — Mary McDonnell
In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than… — Arthur Conan Doyle
When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an… — Cynthia Ozick
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were… — Jack Handey
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are… — Ernest Lawrence
Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to… — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Struck Quotes

567 authors contributed a total of 675 Struck Quotes, led by these top contributors: