Arthur Quotes

• Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Men, Political, President

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• My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Degrees, Honorary

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• I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Forever, Honor

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Book, Quiet

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• I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

  Patsy Cline

  Years, Half

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• Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

  Yannick Noah

  Sports, Athlete, Play

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• Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

  James Merrill

  Vocabulary, Fit, Schemes

  James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

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• I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

  Janis Joplin

  Texas, People, Treats

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• In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

  Harpo Marx

  Minnie, Household

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• A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Guy, Influence, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

  Frederick Buechner

  Men, Would Be, Impossible

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

  Ken Jennings

  Powerful, Government, Ethnicity

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

  Kenneth Lay

  Failure, July, Tragedy

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• Arthur Hughes is one of the pioneers of modern database marketing. His new book, Strategic Database Marketing, Third Edition, contains the wisdom of twenty years of database marketing experience from scores of companies throughout the US. I can heartily endorse Arthur's book for anyone who wants to know the state of the art in database marketing today.

  Lester Wunderman

  Art, Book, Years

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• Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the next century. At least half of them I didn't understand at all, though I'm sure that kids today would know exactly what he meant. I'm somewhere in the past. I do think, however, that our brains have been damaged by technology. I meet kids who don't seem to be capable of reading a long sentence, much less a long book.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: progressive.org

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• Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

  Raymond Sokolov

  Mean, Hateful, Poet

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• And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn't it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy?

  Hilary Mantel

  Military, July, Secret

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• John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Kings, Drama, Hero

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• I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.

  Clive Owen

  Horse, Kings, Lessons

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• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  G.W. Bailey

  Character, Texas, Oil

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down. I’m Arthur Penhaligon, he thought desperately... The crown was wedged tightly upon his head- and Arthur fell silently screaming into darkness.

  Garth Nix

  Blood, Darkness, Together

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #4: Sir Thursday”, p.147, Scholastic Inc.

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• You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.

  Joseph Campbell

  Christian, Kings, Believe

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Mother, Father, Son

  Source: deadline.com

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• Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Design, Example

  "The Panda's Thumb". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Double Trouble", pp. 38-40, 1980.

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• I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very young that can never be outdone and it's a remarkable, strange experience when you think of say Arthur Rimbaud who write poetry between the ages of 17 and 21 whose career was over by the time he was 22.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.

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