Behinds Quotes - Page 33

• If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.

  Martin Gardner

  Lying, Cat, Answers

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• So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Smell, Leaving, Departed

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all.

  Tony Hancock

  Blow, Mourn, Knows

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• You know, it doesn't happen that often that you have the crowd support behind you straightaway from the beginning of the match.

  Kim Clijsters

  Support, Crowds, Behind You

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• A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

  James A. Garfield

  Law, Coercion, Intriguing

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• I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

  Method Man

  Behind The Scenes, Scene

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• As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. It“s not the Internet of Things, but the Internet of People - of customers. We are moving to one-to-one relationships.

  Marc Benioff

  Moving, People, Never Forget

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• I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.

  Jim Croce

  Lost, Left Behind, Left

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• Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

  Paul Davies

  Origin Of Life, Doors, Baffled

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• Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely glimpsed bright face behind/ the apparency of things'? Here, I suppose, we ought to try the impossible task of defining poetry. No one definition will do. But I must admit to a liking for the words of Thomas Fuller, who said: 'Poetry is a dangerous honey. I advise thee only to taste it with the Tip of thy finger and not to live upon it. If thou do'st, it will disorder thy Head and give thee dangerous Vertigos.

  P. K. Page

  Giving, Vision, Trying

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• I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

  Macklemore

  Fashion, Creativity, Men

  "ESQ&A: Macklemore on Music, Style, and More". Interview with Jeremy Unger, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2012.

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• Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words ‘chaos,’ ‘accidental,’ ‘chance,’ ‘unpredictable,’ are conveniences behind which we hide our ignorance.

  Harlow Shapley

  Ignorance, Order, Mind

  HARLOW SHAPLEY (1958). “OF STARS AND MEN”

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• The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

  Timbaland

  People, Would Be, Faces

  "Timbaland Says He's 'Done With Hip-Hop'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. December 11, 2009.

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• When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Sunset, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2029, Delphi Classics

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• People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing with me. That's the difference between the kind of musician I like to work with and singing with a musician who thinks he has to accompany me. That is so annoying I cannot tell you.

  Helen Merrill

  Music, Thinking, Differences

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• Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Men, Important, Exploration

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959). “Up from Liberalism”

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• Things aren't always what they seem
  You're only seeing part of me
  There's more than you could ever know
  Behind the scenes.

  Francesca Battistelli

  Behind The Scenes, Knows, Seems

  Song: Behind The Scenes, Album: My Paper Heart, 2008

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• I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

  Olivia Palermo

  Girl, Powerful, Father

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• My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?

  Wally Lamb

  Song, Sweet, Laughter

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• If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

  Stewart Lee

  Party, Racism, Creative

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• Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Stories, Literature, Able

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• I don't drive, so one of my assistants drives me to my writing room, and I have a calendar on the wall telling me how much time I have left, and how far behind I am. I look at it and panic, and decide which scene to work on. And you sit there plonking notes until something makes sense, and you don't think about it any more. Good tunes come when you're not thinking about it.

  Hans Zimmer

  Wall, Writing, Thinking

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

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• If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Years, Messages, Behind You

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• When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Opportunity, Done, Doorways

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• The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

  Vernon Howard

  People, Helping, Morality

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