Assorted Quotes

• Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones.

  Joanne Lipman

  Business, Awards, Hollywood

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• Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Math, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.163

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• Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

  Beverly Cleary

  Friendship, Book, Boys

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• Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.

  Timothy West

  People, Groups, Lord

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• More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.

  John Pilger

  Media, Tyrants, Training

  "The great charade". www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2002.

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• Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Effort, Too Much

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.812, Delphi Classics

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• Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

  Brendan Behan

  Suicide, Determination, Men

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• Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

  Orson Welles

  Stars, Gold, Hollywood

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• [Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.

  Ann Coulter

  Couple, Italian, Clothes

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• I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Numbers, Feminist, Want

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• If some confectioners were willing
  To let the shape announce the filling,
  We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,
  Bitten into and returned to the box.

  Ogden Nash

  Chocolate, Encounters, Shapes

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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• Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the caves where the cave men lived are full of carvings of assorted game the head of the house drug home. If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too.

  Robert Ruark

  Sports, Home, Men

  Robert Chester Ruark (1957). “The Old Man and the boy”, Henry Holt & Company

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• Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made a religion; moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Children, Hero, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (1927). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?

  Annie Proulx

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make the game successful is by giving them enough unique ways to do things. First, let them deal with pulling levers and things like that for a while. Then after they've mastered that, you give them something else to do, like getting through doorways by blasting them down with a cannon Next, you give them a monster-finding quest, followed by logic problems to figure out. You pace it that way. Assorted activities and the diversity of activities are what makes a game rich in my mind.

  Richard Garriott

  Philosophy, Successful, Unique

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• Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Events, Details, Stories

  A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• I love you, hugs & kisses, smoochies galore, licks, nibbles & assorted gropages!! -Aisling said to Drake

  Katie MacAlister

  Love You, Kissing, Hug

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• Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Kissing, Two

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping

  Nicholas Sparks

  Confused, Bending, Gazing

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.

  David Eddings

  Kings, Inspiration, Knights

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2007). “The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON”, p.6, Del Rey

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• One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Men, Goldfish

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.78, Macmillan

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• As a matter of fact, I was going to offer you something.” “What did you have in mind?” "A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?” “Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and assorted fruit toppings?

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Broken, Mind

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.131, Harlequin

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• Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.

  Steven Erikson

  Cobwebs, Moments, Finest

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• I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.

  Kami Garcia

  Keys, Eight, Two

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• The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.

  Penelope Lively

  Sweet, Self, Broken

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