"Several tons of dynamite are set off in……" — James Agee
"Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people."
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40 Quotes by James Agee
James Agee has 40 quotes on this site.
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
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God doesn't believe in the easy way.
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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised…
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the…
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A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in…
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The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
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Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine,…
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Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good…
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You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at…
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More Dynamite Quotes
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In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient…
— Unknown Author
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.
— Mark Twain
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army…
— Alfred Nobel
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Colors were dynamite for us.
— Andre Derain
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There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
— John H. Vincent
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As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve…
— Nicolaas Bloembergen
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Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a…
— Dave Barry
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A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the…
— Kevin Carson
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Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never…
— Jason Statham
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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait…
— Elbert Hubbard
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