Clip Quotes

• I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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

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• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Philosophy, Angel, Wings

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

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• Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

  John Dewey

  Knowledge, Science, Wings

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.212, University of Illinois Press

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• Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Love, Spiritual, Jesus

  "Science And Health".

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• Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

  Rich Lowry

  Fighting, Usa, Machines

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• I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

  Helen Dunmore

  Children, Black, Sitting

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• People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Education, Courage, Wings

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• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

  John Keats

  Philosophy, Angel, Air

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.214, Harvard University Press

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• Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

  Usher

  Girlfriend, Dating, Nails

  "A Feminist Takedown of Usher’s ‘I Don’t Mind’" by Katie Chodosh, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2015.

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• There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Depression, Philosophy, Angel

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

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• I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

  LL Cool J

  Summer, Home, Eight

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• Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

  Nas

  Baby, Men, Jail

  Song: Nas Is Like, Album: I Am..., 1999

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• The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Dvds, Internet, Could Have Been

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.

  Jandy Nelson

  Talking, Use, Paper

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.12, Penguin

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• Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Tv Shows, New Normal, September 11

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• Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.

  J. K. Rowling

  Noise, Tongue, Yeah

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• After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.

  Anna Godbersen

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable from it. I might show that it is fatal to religion and morality; that it tends to debase the mind, and corrupt its noblest springs of action. I might show that it relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Spring, Wings, Mind

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress”, p.9

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• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Men

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.137

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• My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Tired, Together, Paper

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• I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama, then candidate Obama, going through Iowa making promises. I think the gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

  Mitt Romney

  Wedding, Iowa, Promise

  "Romney: Obama’s promises as good as Kim Kardashian's wedding vows" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. January 2, 2012.

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• We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

  Michael Nutter

  Assault Weapons, Needs, Magazines

  Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.86, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, "You're hip-hop!" You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.

  Jamie Foxx

  Artist, Hip Hop, Hot

  "Comic-Con: Jamie Foxx Talks DJANGO UNCHAINED, His Toughest Scene to Shoot, Tarantino’s Musical Dialogue and Doing a Song for the Soundtrack". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 17, 2012.

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• It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

  Graydon Carter

  Dying, Hussein, Occupation

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• He maybe, possibly, said that if he got word of anyone getting in your way, they’d find out whether there was any truth to the rumor about him knowing how to kill a man with paper clips.

  Julie James

  Men, Knowing, Rumor

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.131, Penguin

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