Virtually Quotes
481 quotes by 414 authors
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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words…
— Dr. Seuss
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there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to…
— Thomas Sowell
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Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes…
— David Foster Wallace
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From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of…
— Douglas Adams
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Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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One way or another, I think virtually all of the prophets and early Apostles had their visionary moments of our time--a view that gave them…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a…
— Michael Pollan
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American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do…
— David Foster Wallace
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Barrons knows virtually everything about me. I wouldn’t be surprised if somewhere he has a little file that encompasses my entire life to date, with…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them…
— Rick Riordan
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But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.
— Koren Zailckas
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Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich. And would you…
— Patrick O'Brian
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Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.
— Tom Holt
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This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them…
— Aldous Huxley
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When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies…
— Myles Munroe
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The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as…
— Steven Pinker
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If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.
— Erwin Schrodinger
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With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us…
— Joe Staton
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