Third Quotes

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A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a… — Paulo Coelho
May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your… — Thomas S. Monson
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as… — Douglas Adams
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were… — Kurt Vonnegut
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. — Ernest Hemingway
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. — Tom Bissell
It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries… — Sidney Poitier
Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand? — Steven Wright
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would… — Bill Bryson
That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book,… — Mary Ann Shaffer
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He… — Paul Simon
Todayâ€™s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt,… — Julia Kristeva
Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose… — Kiran Desai
If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much… — George MacDonald Fraser
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month… — Karen Joy Fowler
Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband… — Ray Bradbury
Have you really read all those books in your room?â€ Alaska laughing- â€œOh God no. Iâ€™ve maybe read a third of â€˜em. But Iâ€™m going… — John Green
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre. — Henry Miller
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and… — Orson Scott Card

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