Such Quotes
16024 Such quotes by 7769 unique authors
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Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact,…
— Jean Aitchison
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For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical…
— Bill Bryson
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Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion…
— Bill Bryson
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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always…
— Ernest Hemingway
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No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.
— Selma Lagerlöf
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Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.
— Stephen King
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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when…
— Kanye West
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The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not…
— H. L. Mencken
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I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
— Janos Bolyai
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We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could…
— Benjamin Bloom
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This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today,…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields…
— Albert Einstein
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Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to…
— Karl Marx
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Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common…
— Pope John Paul II
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The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no…
— Pope John Paul II
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting…
— Milan Kundera
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A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
— Galen Rowell
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They…
— Imogen Cunningham
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Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I don't know how much I can be bothered to have to lose the baby weight. It's such a pain... I'm not one of those…
— Kate Winslet
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An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in…
— Alexander Alekhine
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