Six Quotes

• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• Ever, if I’ve learned nothing else in my six hundred years of living, it’s that people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.

  Alyson Noel

  Hate, Years, People

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• When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Uganda, Phones

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• Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

  Jim Rohn

  Years, Six Months, Enhancement

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 16, 2017

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  I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Hilarious, Hate

  Quoted in Michele Brown and Ann O'Connor, Woman Talk (1984)

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  Andy Rooney

  Teacher, People, Literature

  "A profession brought back to life" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2005.

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• With knot of one, the spell's begun. With knot of two, the spell be true. With knot of three, the spell is free. With knot of four, the power is stored. With knot of five, the spell with thrive. With knot of six, this spell I fix.

  Deborah Harkness

  Two, Three, Four

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• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

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• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Gambling, Dice, Score

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• You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?

  Cassandra Clare

  Long, Kind, Hours

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1043, Simon and Schuster

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• I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

  Wallace Stevens

  Office, Nine

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... "Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Art, Blow

  "The Joy Luck Club". Book by Amy Tan, 1989.

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• Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wine, Glasses, Pigs

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• No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

  Agatha Christie

  Funny, Beautiful, Drunk

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• Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Night, Giving

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• Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.

  J. K. Rowling

  Years, Potters, Ghost

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• He looked at her. 'In order to finish, I'll have to have defeated six Infected, Dusk, and Vengeous himself.' Yeah. So?' The Infected I can manage.' She frowned. 'And Vengeous? I mean, you can beat him, right?' Well,' he said, "I can certainly try. And trying is half the battle.' What's the other half?' He shrugged. 'Hitting him more times than he hits me.

  Derek Landy

  Mean, Order, Battle

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• He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Sleep, Order, Law

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Rebecca”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.

  Susan Cooper

  Song, Dark, Sea

  Susan Cooper (2007). “The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth

  James Patterson

  Angel, Years, Mutants

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• Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.” I was totally confused. “In the car?” “In your life,” he said.

  Megan McCafferty

  Confused, Moving, Thinking

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.308, Crown

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• An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

  Neal Stephenson

  Years, People, Gone

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.169, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Brother, Father, Talking

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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