Utterly Quotes
850 quotes by 690 authors
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To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly…
— Marilynne Robinson
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at…
— Sara Teasdale
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..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.
— Peter Høeg
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting…
— Douglas Adams
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XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i…
— E E Cummings
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I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your…
— Jean Webster
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The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.
— Ted Dekker
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the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,…
— Albert Einstein
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The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being…
— Alan Watts
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Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it…
— Henry James
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Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is…
— Alan Moore
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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of…
— Yann Martel
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Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively…
— Iain Banks
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Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.
— Leonard Bernstein
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The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
— Mark Twain
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Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up…
— Ian Fleming
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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