"Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are……" — Peter De Vries
"Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter."
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75 Quotes by Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries has 75 quotes on this site.
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the…
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my…
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We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask.…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.…
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
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Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under…
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
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More Cookie Quotes
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one of 192 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
— Alec Baldwin
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I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.
— Sandra Bullock
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A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to…
— Nolan Bushnell
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I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or…
— Kelly Clarkson
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I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in…
— Zoe Saldana
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And thats the way it was and thats the way the cookie crumbles
— Tupac Shakur
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Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who…
— Meryl Streep
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Nine! The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater,…
— Billy Sunday
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A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and…
— Debbi Fields
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At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us…
— Conan O'Brien
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Diets are a fool’s errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether it’s chocolate or a cookie. If I don’t,…
— Evangeline Lilly
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I just did a five-day raw-food diet, but I'll never do that again. It's really hard! I'd wake up in…
— Amanda Seyfried
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