Webster Quotes
35 quotes by 29 authors
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Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way…
— Calista Flockhart
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Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.
— Hari Kunzru
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When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O,…
— Robert Breault
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I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
— Stan Getz
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One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
— Calista Flockhart
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And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is…
— Barbara Amiel
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'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that…
— Robertson Davies
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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?…
— George Carlin
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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
— Taylor Hackford
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Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to…
— David Levithan
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The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and…
— David Nicholls
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What do you mean I have a predetermined death?†– Nick “Did I stutter?†– Death “No.†– Nick “Do I look like Webster’s?†–…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd…
— Julian Barnes
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Who's with her?" Roarke asked, though he already knew. It was just like her. "With her? Oh, ah, hmmm. Webster." Silence fell, a clatter of…
— Nora Roberts
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Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes…
— John C. Maxwell
Who Wrote These Webster Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 35 Webster Quotes, led by these top contributors: