Mines Quotes - Page 6

• I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

  Lance Armstrong

  Jobs, Memories, Three

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything around me glows with passion. Every day reveals a new red flower, glowing, scarlet red. Everyone around me carries them. Some wear them quietly hidden in their hearts. And they are like poppies just opening, of which one can see only here and there a hint of red petal peeking out from the green bud.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Art, Flower, Passion

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• Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.

  Nancy Hale

  World, Fingers, Slips

  Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume

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• The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Character, Blow, Jewels

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• One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high.

  Heinrich Muller

  Blow, Sky, Herds

  "The Third Reich: A New History". Book by Michael Burleigh, 2000.

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• Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds This gospel to me since I learned to list Truth from thy lips, mine own evangelist. What thought presumes to set now any bounds To Love whose being informs us and surrounds?

  John Barlas

  Sound, Lists, Lips

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• As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key.

  John Barlas

  Simple, Keys, Hands

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• you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.

  Jean Little

  Running, Mountain Ranges, Imagination

  Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

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• For me the motley and the bauble, yea,
  Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith,
  The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!

  Frederic Lawrence Knowles

  Love Is, Vanity, Mirth

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• I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.

  Jerrie Cobb

  Spiritual, Adventure, Sky

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• I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.

  Eva Longoria

  Sleep, Wish, Dresses

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• Writing on the road is a passion of mine.

  Lee DeWyze

  Passion, Writing

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• Acting has always been a passion of mine, so any opportunity that allows me to do that is definitely of interest to me.

  Nick Jonas

  Passion, Opportunity, Acting

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• In 2nd grade, a girl who was a friend of mine gave me a homemade valentine. Like, a real, handwritten one!

  Luke Benward

  Girl, Real, Valentine

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• My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

  Megan Fox

  World, Body, Left

  "Megan Fox In ‘Bazaar’: I’ve Only Had Sex With Two Men", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2010.

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• I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Imagination, Form

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• I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

  Lisa Ann Walter

  Growing Up, Two Friends, Dancing

  "Dance Your Ass Off with Ruben and Lisa Ann Walter!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. September 2, 2009.

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• Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.

  Mr. T

  Men, No Friends, Mama

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• Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.

  Raven-Symone

  Years, Two, Wake Up

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

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• A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, "Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it." She goes, "Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?"

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mean, Icons, Feminist

  "'Community': Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable". Interview with Jace Lacob, www.thedailybeast.com. February 28, 2012.

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• Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

  Barry Pepper

  War, Blessed, Fighting

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• Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, School, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• An actress friend of mine shared a great trick. She told me to stick my tongue behind my teeth when I smile to keep from over-smiling. If you smile without doing it, sometimes your gums show a little too much. It's an actor's trick!

  Jessica Chastain

  Teeth, Actors, Gum

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• A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Luxury, Imagination

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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• But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Men, Life Is

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