Fronts Quotes - Page 27

• Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  People, Cooking, Done

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• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

  Fiona Shaw

  Mother, Order, Singing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don’t call me a loser in front of my mom!

  Forrest Griffin

  Mom, Loser, Call Me

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• There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Horse, Jumping, Light

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• Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

  Ardant du Picq

  Military, Men, Enemy

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.422, Lulu.com

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• One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Powerful, Men, Order

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• In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

  Philip Caputo

  Peace, War, Distance

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• It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

  Loren Eiseley

  Nature, Men, Trying

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• Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

  Nate Ruess

  Men, Thinking, Tacky

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• What's twelve inches long and hangs in front on ass, Mankind's tie.

  Jerry Lawler

  Funny, Wwe, Ties

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• Oh my god! Would you shut the front door already?! Look at you walking out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did. Whatchu think you fancy, huh? Look, uh, sweetheart, I don't speak Gucci or anything, but I'll give it my best shot.

  Alex Riley

  Thinking, Hair, Doors

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• That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Years

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• And he's lost both right front tires.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Tire

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• And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn't it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy?

  Hilary Mantel

  Military, July, Secret

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• Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.

  Clive Barker

  Fall, Cat, Doors

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• You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

  Albie Sachs

  Wise, Running, Want

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• One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Goats, Mules

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• The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Relief, Body, Painting

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

  Bruce Catton

  Fun, War, Army

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• People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

  John Betjeman

  Home, Garden, People

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• A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

  Ugo Betti

  Doctors, Police, Vague

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Octopus, Gossip, Monsters

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• A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

  Alfred Kazin

  Death, Years, Dying

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• One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Thinking, Pigs, Together

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• All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Lost Youth, Quiet

  All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1

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