Type Quotes
2814 Type quotes by 2115 unique authors
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But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for…
— Daniel Handler
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This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
— Winston Churchill
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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.
— Paul Reiser
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Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness,…
— Salman Rushdie
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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a…
— Oscar Wilde
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The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
— Ayn Rand
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Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us;…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and…
— Brian Selznick
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there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.
— Nicole Krauss
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He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up…
— Virginia Woolf
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The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.
— Haruki Murakami
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Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
— Dodie Smith
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Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those…
— Stephen Colbert
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Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with…
— Douglas Coupland
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There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the…
— Orhan Pamuk
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I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong -…
— Russell Brand
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I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
— Haruki Murakami
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A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy…
— A. J. Jacobs
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A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
— Haruki Murakami
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Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
— Billy Collins
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At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then…
— Chelsea Handler
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Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of…
— Patricia Hill Collins
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