Taper Quotes
31 quotes by 24 authors
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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
— Johnny Carson
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What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never…
— Charles Dickens
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Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
— Donald Barthelme
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind…
— Michael Faraday
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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
— Robert Browning
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To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is…
— William Crookes
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My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He…
— Edward Abbey
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Start slowly, then taper off.
— Walt Stack
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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark…
— Plato
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If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun.…
— Frederick Douglass
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When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss…
— Vivica Fox
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What you do during the offseason is, first, build a base. That takes about three weeks, and then you try to get as strong as…
— Josh Beckett
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Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.
— Dorian Yates
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Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw…
— William Shakespeare
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I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as…
— Michael Faraday
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Hope, like the gleaming taper
— Oliver Goldsmith
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'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Start slow and taper off.
— Walt Stack
Who Wrote These Taper Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 31 Taper Quotes as follows: