Refreshing Quotes - Page 4

• Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

  Sloane Crosley

  Crush, Ex Boyfriend, Dancing

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• You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Smell, Effort

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• You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'

  Sloane Crosley

  Keys, Pie, Tables

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• Hey there.' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?' I'm engaged!' Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.

  Sloane Crosley

  Hey, Answers, Throat

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.120, Portobello Books

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• And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

  Julie Burchill

  Pigs, Doors, Dinner

  "Chill factors". www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths to turn people into icons, nor did he presume to show their “true nature” in something so transient as a photograph. Instead, he used photography's special qualities to suggest intimate things about his subjects, things that cannot be put into words, and may not even be possible to put into pictures.

  Sebastian Smee

  Photography, Icons, People

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• Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh will undoubtedly put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated big government freeloader. In the ‘Everyone Deserves a Trophy’ society we live in, it’s refreshing to know that Jim’s literary voice will cut through the politics, using the American spirit of a used car dealer.

  Lars Larson

  Cutting, Government, Voice

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• This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Design, Littles

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• Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen." I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?

  Neal Shusterman

  Mean, Thinking, Needs

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Be Who You Are, Trying, Glee

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• I hope you like Guiness, Sir. I find it a refreshing alternative to food.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Beer, Alternatives

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• Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?

  Sloane Crosley

  Sleep, Towns, Imperfect

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.91, Portobello Books

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• Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, New York, Golf

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• Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup, you will receive only that quantity. If you hold up a bowl, that will be filled. What kind of receptacle are you holding up to Divine Abundance?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Rain, Thinking, Hands

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• In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Father, Views, Republic

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• Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy.

  Gary Haugen

  Jesus, Compassion, Giving

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• Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the job done

  Matthew West

  Jobs, Needs, Done

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• Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that.

  Billy Graham

  Heaven, Mind, Body

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Most women are motivated so I act accordingly
  But this is so refreshing that it means a little more to me

  Drake

  Mean, Littles, Motivated

  Song: July

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• When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Blessed, Grateful

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• I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

  Sean Bean

  Guy, Trying, Playing Someone

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• Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

  Mark Weiser

  Machines, Woods, Computer

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• To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.

  John H. Lienhard

  Memories, Mean, Science

  John H. Lienhard (2006). “How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines”, p.227, Oxford University Press

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• In this troubled world, it's refreshing to find someone who still has the time to be kind. Someone who still has the faith to believe that the more you give, the more you receive. Someone who's ready by thought, word, or deed to reach out a hand, in the hour of need.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Believe, Hands, Volunteer

  Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.167, Revell

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• The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

  Frederick Rolfe

  Wall, Liars, Students

  Frederick Rolfe (1931). “A History of the Borgias”

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