Seven Quotes - Page 33

• What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Women, Eight, Pigs

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• I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Children, Long Ago, Hiroshima

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• Your husband is lazy if the directions on his medicine say, "A teaspoon before going to bed," and in one day he uses seven bottles.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Husband, Medicine

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• I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

  Janet Echelman

  Art, School, College

  "Taking imagination seriously". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.

  Ernie Els

  Night, Two, Leaving

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• My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

  Vo Nguyen Giap

  Fighting, Pillars

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• I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly.

  Canibus

  Twenties, Degrees, Three

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• I am a teller of stories. A weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather I can stand on my head. I know 7 words of Latin, I have a little magic... and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, I can fight dirty but not fair. I once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic, I am a luxury and, in that sense, necessary.

  Anthony Minghella

  Dream, Latin, Dirty

  "Fictional character: The Storyteller". TV Series "The Storyteller" ("A Story Short", 1988), www.imdb.com. (1987 - ).

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• Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.

  Regis McKenna

  Life, Dog, Business

  Regis McKenna (1985). “The Regis touch: million-dollar advice from America's top marketing consultant”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Years, Half

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• YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Cities, Honor

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.242, University of Georgia Press

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• In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a cliché, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Morning, New York

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• Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want to sound like a Quaker, but when you think about it, is a week a long time to wait? To see if a former mental patient is qualified to own an Uzi? Con one, will ya Congress? It takes three weeks to get a phone!

  Jimmy Tingle

  Gun, Thinking, Phones

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• Hey, Warren, the Raiders signed you to a seven-year deal. I guess Bill Callahan was right - they are the dumbest team in America.

  Tom Arnold

  Football, Team, Years

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• I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

  John Donne

  Love, Country, Wonder

  Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

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• Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Love, Art, Philosophy

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1858). “Sketches of art, literature, and character [orig. publ. as Visits and sketches at home and abroad].”, p.50

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• "I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes."
  "I'm inquisitive ... and I love a new challenge... and if I feel that we can do it better than it's been done by other people, we'll have a go."

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Adventure, Thinking

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• Yeah, handsome, great big guy, seven feet tall! Name is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And he started a business. Of course you know it was in basketball. But it wasn't in basketball! I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

  Mitt Romney

  Basketball, Sports, Mean

  "Mitt Romney and “Sport,” a Continuing Saga" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

  Kurt Loder

  Years, Europe, Yellow

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• Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

  Mike Figgis

  Eight, Years, Missing

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• I grew up like Athena — covered with playing cards instead of armor — and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

  Ricky Jay

  Tv Shows, Magic, Age

  "Secrets of the Magus" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. April 5, 1993.

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• How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?
  That depends.
  On what?
  On how I want to feel.

  Greg Egan

  Years, Doe, Want

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• I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand US dollars and one kilo of rice is seven cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I don’t think we have enough.

  B. J. Habibie

  Money, Airplane, Thinking

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• When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

  Alain Robert

  Keys, Parent, Apartment

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• Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy.
  You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday.
  No wonder you feel that lost sensation.
  You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.

  Ogden Nash

  Friday, Sleep, Weekend

  "We'll All Feel Better By Wednesday". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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