Classic Quotes - Page 33

• We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

  Bernard of Chartres

  Giants, Shoulders, Dwarfs

  Quoted in John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon (1159) See Robert Burton 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1

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• A stately pleasure-dome decree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Domes, Pleasure, Decree

  "Kubla Khan" l. 1 (1816)

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• Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Angel, Men, Apes

  Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

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• Shaken and not stirred.

  Ian Fleming

  Dr. No ch. 14 (1958).

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• Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

  E. M. Forster

  Passion, Howards End, Prose

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 22

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• He would, wouldn't he?

  Mandy Rice-Davies

  Testimony at trial of Stephen Ward, 29 June 1963

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• Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spirit, Hail, Blithe

  "To a Skylark" l. 1 (1819)

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• Am I no a bonny fighter?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Fighter

  Kidnapped ch. 10 (1886)

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• Publish and be damned.

  Duke of Wellington

  Publish

  Attributed in George Bernard Shaw, Mrs.Warren's Profession (1898). This wasWellington's alleged response in 1824 to a blackmail threat from a publisher about to release the Memoirs of courtesan Harriette Wilson, who had been the duke's mistress and was ready to "name names." These words supposedly were written in bright red ink on the blackmailing letter, with the letter then returned to the publisher. However, the letter survives at Apsley House and has no trace of such a reply.

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• Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hellhounds

  'The Code of the Woosters' (1938) ch. 1

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• Earth has not anything to show more fair.

  William Wordsworth

  Earth, Shows, Fairs

  "Composed uponWestminster Bridge" l. 1 (1807)

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• As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Real, Years, Long

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• Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Sleep, Parenthood

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 18, 2011.

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• Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Holiday, House

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted

  Paul Lynde

  Children, Thinking, Joy

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• I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

  Anita Diament

  Book, Editors, Stories

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• It's going to be crazy. I'm guessing when we play against the Dominicans, half the field will be Dominican fans and half will be Puerto Rican fans. With all the big-time players in the World Classic, it's going to be huge.

  Carlos Beltran

  Crazy, Player, Fans

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• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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• A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Reading, Discovery

  Italo Calvino (2014). “Why Read the Classics?”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know in Britain with 'Doctor Who' all the classic actors, and the people who you'd really want to, work on the show. I like that the fact that 'Torchwood' has actors that want to be involved from the stage. It has raised our game, and I'm just happy for good actors who want to be in sci-fi shows who love the genre.

  Burn Gorman

  Love, Doctors, Games

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• We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Women, Four, Path

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• I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic, meaning the annihilation of the Ukrainian peasantry, Ukrainian intelligentsia, Ukrainian language, and history as understood by the people; to do away with Ukraine and things Ukrainian as such. The calculation was very simple, very primitive: no people, therefore, no separate country, and thus no problem. Such a policy is Genocide in the classic sense of the word.

  James Mace

  Country, Simple, Ukraine

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• Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'

  Nicholas Jarecki

  Kings, Indulge In, Errors

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

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• The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Gone, Preppy, Lifestyle

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• It is magnificent, but it is not war.

  Pierre Bosquet

  War, History, Magnificent

  Quoted in Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why (1953)

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