Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 5

• I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

  Devendra Banhart

  Song, Thinking, Feminist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

  Aretha Franklin

  Rocks, Fame, Glamorous

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• Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Sarcastic, People, Being Sarcastic

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• Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

  John Larroquette

  Night, Giving, Bumps

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• civilization is a transient sickness.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Civilization, Sickness, Illness

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938”, p.158, Stanford University Press

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• Appearances are deceiving.

  Aesop

  Appearance, Deceiving

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• I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.

  Max Lucado

  Grace, Logical, Ifs

  Max Lucado (2011). “No Wonder They Call Him the Savior -: Discover Hope in the Unlikeliest Place?Upon the Cross”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

  Charles Dickens

  Pigs, Giving, Mind

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• We heed no instincts but our own.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Instinct, Heed

  Jean de La Fontaine (1843). “Fables”, p.58

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• Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

  Victor Hugo

  Grass, Turkish, Grows

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• There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

  Albert Einstein

  Clothes, Atmosphere, Dresses

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• You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Cake, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, Many Hands

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.59

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• Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Doors, Fortune, Remedy

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.83, Wordsworth Editions

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• First the grub, then the morals.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Firsts, Moral

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• We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

  Max Born

  Children, Needs, World

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• Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• There's two heads to every coin.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• I need someone to eat breakfast with and watch AdventureTime with! Then, do other miscellaneous things that you can't say on Twitter!

  Adrian Robinson

  Watches, Needs, Breakfast

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• But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

  Merle Shain

  Eye, Men, Sight

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• I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mistake, Party, Thinking

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• Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that they constitute a (meaningless) pattern when seen from a certain (not particularly special) place in the galaxy (here).

  Richard Dawkins

  Stars, Distance, Aquarius

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• Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fall, Survival, Prejudice

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• Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

  John F. Kennedy

  Vices, Form

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• The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Funny Things, Stopping

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.

  Laozi

  Two, Three, All Things

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