"Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh……" — J. B. Priestley
"Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us."
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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley
J. B. Priestley has 61 quotes on this site.
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were…
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign…
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds…
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More Catching Quotes
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
— Honore de Balzac
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With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around…
— Marlon Brando
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It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
— Jeff Bridges
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and…
— Warren Buffett
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a…
— John Jay Chapman
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a…
— Unknown Author
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I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching…
— Bobby Jones
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I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart…
— Edwin Way Teale
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I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind…
— Unknown Author
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There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Come away; poverty's catching.
— Aphra Behn
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