Arthur Quotes

• Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Men, Political, President

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• It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

  Frederick Buechner

  Men, Would Be, Impossible

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

  Harpo Marx

  Minnie, Household

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• Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

  James Merrill

  Vocabulary, Fit, Schemes

  James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

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• Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

  Yannick Noah

  Sports, Athlete, Play

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• I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Forever, Honor

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Book, Quiet

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• I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

  Patsy Cline

  Years, Half

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• I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

  Janis Joplin

  Texas, People, Treats

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• A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Guy, Influence, Bigs

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

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• My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Degrees, Honorary

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• I'm not the guy you kill. I'm the guy you buy! Are you so blind that you don't even see what I am? I sold out Arthur for 80 grand. I'm your easiest problem and you're gonna kill me?

  Michael Clayton

  Guy, Problem, Blind

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• Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

  Ken Jennings

  Powerful, Government, Ethnicity

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

  Patti Smith

  Dirty, Mean, Humanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot's born, Arthur's fate is sealed. He'll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who'll kill him. In this moment, he's a boy. In the next he'll be a king.

  Nora Roberts

  Kings, Fate, Boys

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy”, p.137, Penguin

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• The waiter approached. 'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?' 'Huh?' said Ford. 'Huh?' said Arthur. 'Huh?' said Trillian. 'That’s cool,' said Zaphod. 'We'll meet the meat.

  Douglas Adams

  Meat, Dishes, Menus

  Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.111, Del Rey

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• I come from the theatre where there are no boundaries to the style you're doing; you're doing Molière, then you're doing Chekhov and then you're doing Arthur Miller in a season and no-one bats an eye.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Eye, Style, Theatre

  "Mark Ruffalo talks Spotlight, Thor: Ragnarok and Columbo". Interview with Phil De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. February 1, 2016.

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• When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

  Patti Smith

  Teenager, My Boyfriend, Bob

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.

  Bernard Marcus

  Unique, Two, People

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• Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

  Douglas Adams

  Space, Speak, Busy

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.322, Pan Macmillan

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• ... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1854). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster”, p.374

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• Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.

  David Eddings

  Kings, Inspiration, Knights

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2007). “The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON”, p.6, Del Rey

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• When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears. “Hey, Boo,” I said. “Mr. Arthur, honey,” said Atticus, gently correcting me. “Jean Louise, this is Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you.

  Harper Lee

  Wall, Believe, Sweat

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• How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

  Douglas Adams

  Military, Passing, Said

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.

  Zadie Smith

  Years, People, Historical

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