Feds Quotes - Page 29

• Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner. ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.

  Honor Tracy

  Eye, Fire, Europe

  Honor Tracy (1957). “Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey”, New York, Random House [1958

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• Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Vanity, Compliment, Court

  William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1850). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.169

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• I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race.

  Elaine Morgan

  Believe, Men, Race

  Elaine Morgan (1973). “The descent of woman”

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• money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

  Helen McCloy

  Money, Taste, Grows

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• At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Education, Disappointment, Wall

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• There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you'll find it lasts you very well.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Pain, Brain, Lasts

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.255, Pineapple Press Inc

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• just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mean, People, Weight

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• The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect.

  Henrietta Szold

  Heart, Intellect

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• Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that had to be fed with animal sacrifices in order to burn brightly. Today we have evolved a long way from this ridiculous notion of a 'fire god' and now rightfully understand God to be a bearded being who lives amongst the clouds and hates Jews and homosexuals.

  Amy Sedaris

  God, Hate, Sacrifice

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• [On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

  Evelyn Anthony

  Cities, Careers, Rumor

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• Americans are used to being pandered to and spoon-fed everything. In a culture that needs caffeine-free cherry chocolate diet Coke, you'd best deliver information with entertainment.

  Bill Maher

  Chocolate, Entertainment, Needs

  Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September 2008.

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• I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.

  Dane Cook

  Hands, Spoons, Excited

  "Dane Cook Interview". Interview with McClain Johnson, mcclainjohnson.com.

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• The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Art, Sex, Real

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• Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

  Masiela Lusha

  Children, Passion, Needs

  "REEL Lady: Masiela Lusha". reelladies.wordpress.com. September 1, 2008.

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• The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wine, Glasses, Gentleman

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• We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

  James Hollis

  World, Share, Findings

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.35, Penguin

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• There are too many over-fed, under-motivated Christians hiding behind the excuse that God has not spoken to them. They are waiting to hear voices or see dreams - all the while living to make money, to provide for their future, to dress well and have fun.

  Floyd McClung

  Christian, Dream, Fun

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• What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?

  Marjo-Riikka Makela

  What If, Today, Inspired

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• I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

  Ben Whishaw

  Stories, Music Love, Film

  "Interview: Actor Ben Whishaw on 'Cloud Atlas' + Playing Q in 'Skyfall'". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. October 31, 2012.

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• Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self, Order, Should

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Faculty, Imaginative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.231

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• As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Fed Up

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• I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy play a jerk kid? I'm 27 years old. I've been divorced once and separated from my second wife. I have two boys of my own. I spent almost two years in the army. It's time Judge Hardy went out and bought me a double-breasted suit.

  Mickey Rooney

  Kids, Army, Boys

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• We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Egypt, Colonialism, Fed Up

  "Egypt’s Nawal El Saadawi: 'We Will Not Let Egypt Burn'". The Root Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

  Imogen Heap

  Inspiration, Thinking, Finding Yourself

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