Excellent Quotes - Page 4

• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adversity, Years, Weather

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• We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

  Roger Moore

  Nice, Oysters, France

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• What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Language, Lost

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• When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Mind, Literature

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.275

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• For as the old saying is,
  When house and land are gone and spent
  Then learning is most excellent.

  Samuel Foote

  Education, Money, Land

  Samuel Foote (1797). “The Dramatic Works: Of Samuel Foote, Esq. To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author. In Two Volumes. ...”, p.14

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• My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

  Jeremy London

  Brother, Guitar, Play

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• I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

  Christopher Atkins

  Thinking, Insecurity, Supposed To Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  Ted Koppel

  Npr, Years, Ideas

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• All we are is dust in the wind, dude.

  Ted Theodore

  Dust, Wind

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• Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Responsibility, Animal, Thinking

  "Ellen on Life, Love and Laughter!" by Ellen Degeneres and Elizabeth Leonard, people.com. March 03, 2014.

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• What is easy is seldom excellent.

  Samuel Johnson

  Easy

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.435, OUP Oxford

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• Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

  Tony Wagner

  Teacher, Doe, Lessons

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• Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Educational

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  Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Pain, Reading

  "The Barretts at Hope End: the early diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning".

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• Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Belief, Conviction, Worthless

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• I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

  Anton Chekhov

  Husband, Moon, Sky

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

  Federico Fellini

  Thinking, Genius, Brilliant Ideas

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

  John Norman

  Mastery, Brilliant Ideas, One Thing

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• That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

  Adam Savage

  Mean Girls, Mean, Really Cool

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• I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

  Twyla Tharp

  Mean, Dancing, Intimidating

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

  Twyla Tharp

  Children, Mean, Dedication

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• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

  Plutarch

  Enemy, Quality, Brilliant Ideas

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• I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

  Horace Walpole

  Political, Politics, Way

  Horace Walpole, John Wright (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.313

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• It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Art, Fate, Long

  Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1892). “The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent”

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