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

  Harpo Marx

  Minnie, Household

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

  Patti Smith

  Dirty, Mean, Humanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There was a play that was written by who I think is America's greatest playwright, and he wrote a small part in it for me. It was going to open in Chicago, and then go to New York. But then, he died. It was Arthur Miller. That was the reason I turned Lost down.

  Scott Glenn

  Thinking, Reason, Playwright

  Source: collider.com

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• Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations. As a writer, you have to be of two minds.

  Patti Smith

  Order, Two, Mind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot's born, Arthur's fate is sealed. He'll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who'll kill him. In this moment, he's a boy. In the next he'll be a king.

  Nora Roberts

  Kings, Fate, Boys

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy”, p.137, Penguin

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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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• I'm on Grace And Frankie, which is also about that time in life, I'm realizing. But I would - so I guess I am sort of in that show. But there's something about The Golden Girls and the sort of multicam set and Bea Arthur that I just want to be around those ladies all day long, and I want to be on those comfy couches and want to sit in that kitchen in those chairs in those pastels, and I want to wear Blanche's outfits and it's just really... and I want to sit outside in that weird little courtyard.

  June Diane Raphael

  Girl, Long, Grace

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists.... Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I have no doubt that Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin were also fantastic piano players - though there is no way to listen to them when they were performing.

  Richard Clayderman

  Player, Years, Piano

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.

  Steven Sebring

  People, Inspire, Blake

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors - John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.

  Norman Lear

  Directors, Bud, Stories

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Mentally, I write myself a little story. Of course, sometimes you have a song that says, "Do that." My best example is Singin' in the Rain. Arthur Freed had insisted that the song should be in the picture, but he was very anxious about it.

  Gene Kelly

  Song, Rain, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

  Coco Chanel

  Boys, Long Ago, Moral

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  New York, Play, Childhood

  Source: movieweb.com

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