Teeming Quotes
58 quotes by 51 authors
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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
— William Blake
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This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.
— Jacob Lawrence
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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,…
— Annie Dillard
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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor…
— Lord Acton
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If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for…
— Paul Davies
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The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious…
— Charlie Pierce
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over…
— Paul Davies
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Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like…
— Joshua Foer
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With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio…
— Alanis Morissette
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Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with…
— Edward Weston
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Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The world is teeming; anything can happen.
— John Cage
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So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build…
— Eric Weiner
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The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be…
— Jodi Picoult
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perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
— Salman Rushdie
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There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond,…
— Kate Morton
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I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with…
— Jeanette Winterson
Who Wrote These Teeming Quotes
51 authors contributed a total of 58 Teeming Quotes, led by these top contributors: