Struck Me Quotes
125 Struck Me quotes by 118 unique authors
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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge…
— Daniel Tammet
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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
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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
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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
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But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand…
— Sally Gardner
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers…
— Lord Dunsany
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It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed…
— Anne Rice
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It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed…
— George Friedman
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol…
— T Bone Burnett
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The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
— Gloria Swanson
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The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly good at numbers,…
— Richard Branson
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From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt…
— Luke Davies
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It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures…
— Achmat Dangor
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It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth;…
— Michael Bergin
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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they…
— Oscar Wilde
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One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature…
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that…
— Nora Ephron
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When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only…
— David Boies
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It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or…
— James Payn
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The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put…
— Jennifer Lynch
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Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to…
— William Eldridge Odom
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What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I…
— Alexey Leonov
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