Memorable Quotes - Page 24

• Cursed be he that moves my bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Bones, Cursed

  Epitaph on his tomb at Stratford-on-Avon, supposed to have been chosen by himself.

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• This is the short and the long of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Windsor, Merry

  "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Book by William Shakespeare, 1602.

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• He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Hats

  1598 Beatrice, of Benedick. Much AdoAbout Nothing, act1, sc.1, l.71-3.

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• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Comedy is acting out optimism.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Philosophy, Humor

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

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• People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, White

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• Reality: What a concept!

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  E. O. Wilson

  Failure, Successful, Effort

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.16, Vintage

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• Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

  Virginia Woolf

  Friendship, Women, Book

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Time, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.

  Steve Yzerman

  Hard Times, Thinking, Lasting Impressions

  The IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Persons

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.18, Penguin

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• By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

  Eve Babitz

  Women, Maturity

  Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.151, New York Review of Books

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  You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

  Lauren Bacall

  Hate, Winning, Battle

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• Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy!

  Chris Jericho

  Basketball, Softball, Football

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• Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Writing, Night, Ideas

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• I have more influence now than when I had the power.

  Gough Whitlam

  Leadership, Power, Political

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

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• I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

  Carol Burnett

  Funny Inspirational, Thinking, Teeth

  "Teeth implants an involved process". Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, February 27, 2017.

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• It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Funny Inspirational, Long Ago, Snacks

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.191, Northwestern University Press

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• The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

  Shozo Tanaka

  Heart, Rivers, Water

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• How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

  Alan Greenspan

  Assets, Irrational, Exuberance

  Remarks at American Enterprise Institute dinner, Washington, D.C., 5 Dec. 1996

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• Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?

  Raymond J. Donovan

  Office, Reputation

  "The Scandal Machine — When Will We Ever Learn?" by Lanny Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2015.

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• My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

  Dick Cheney

  Stupid, Iraq, Facts

  Dick Cheney, Richard B. Cheney, Liz Cheney (2012). “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir”, p.400, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes a village to raise a child.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Village To Raise A Child, It Takes A Village

  Hillary Clinton (0101). “Talking It Over: A collection of her newspaper columns from 1995 to 1996”, p.78, Creators Publishing

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• I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.

  Russ Grimm

  Basketball, Running, Mother

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