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Thinking Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
- I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
- . . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's…
- I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very…
- I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one…
- I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm…
- He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the…
- I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are…
- Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think…
- The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work,…
- You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word…
- I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had…
- [T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams