Used Quotes - Page 5

• A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

  James Whistler

  Mean, Finishing, Ends

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

  Winston Churchill

  White, Black, Sides

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

  William Shakespeare

  Knavery, Faces

  William Shakespeare, E.A.J. Honigmann (1996). “Othello: Third Series”, p.182, A&C Black

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• I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.

  George Carlin

  Sorry, Two, Comedian

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Speech, Scandal, Beats

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• There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hate, Two, Giving

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• I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Caring, Care, Pounds

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• When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Nostalgia, Assuming

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Rejection, Ends, Rejected

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• He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is. You see, Pop never used a tape measure. He didn't believe in it. He said he could just look at a man and tell his size, with the result that frequently he'd make a pair of pants with one trouser leg seven or eight inches longer than the other.

  Groucho Marx

  Father, Believe, Men

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

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• I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Night, Long

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• He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.

  Plutarch

  Sea, Land, Secret

  Plutarch (1844). “Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch”, p.182

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• A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Men, Imagination

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• Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.

  Edward de Bono

  Simple, Thinking, Ideas

  The Use of Lateral Thinking foreword (1967)

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• My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Lying, Gun

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• Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Appreciation, Passion, Creative

  Lewis Grizzard (1991). “Don't Forget to Call Your Mama--: I Wish I Could Call Mine”

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• I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

  Al Gore

  Football, Military, Suitcases

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• My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.

  Jim Carrey

  Father, Pigs, Ham

  Commencement Speech at Maharishi University of Management, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

  Calvin Trillin

  Vampire, Excess, Garlic

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• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

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• When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.

  Dogen

  Two, Religion, Way

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• This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses.

  John F. Kerry

  Hurt, Administration, Gimmicks

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• The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.

  Damien Hirst

  Nuts, Infinite, Possibility

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• Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.

  Alain de Botton

  Photography, Attention, Done

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• Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

  Rollo May

  People, Creative, Anxiety

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