Spears Quotes - Page 5

• Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

  Walter Scott

  War, Son, Scotland

  'Marmion' (1808) canto 6, st. 34

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• Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision,
  only when we are the wind together streaming and singing,
  only in the dream we become with our bones for spears,
  we are real at last
  and wake.

  Marge Piercy

  Dream, Real, Mirrors

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.169, Knopf

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• The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
  They have pointed the helms of their ships
  Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Anger, Greek

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.

  E. O. Wilson

  Butterfly, Eight, Orchids

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• When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Wall, Enemy, Spirit

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.66, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Never has a spear moved so fast!

  Zhao Yun

  Moved

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• You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.

  T-Pain

  Hate, Matter, Tvs

  "T-Pain almost ended up working at McDonald's". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. June 8, 2007.

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• I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it ... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.

  Beth Ditto

  Sick, Childhood, Trying

  "The insiders guide to Beth Ditto". www.cnn.com. November 24, 2006.

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• I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Trying, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Free will is something that people struggle with so much, but it's very simple to me. Carl Jung said at the same moment you're a protagonist in your own life making choices, you also are the spear carrier, or the extra, in a much larger drama. You've got to live with these two opposite ideas at the same time.

  Wayne Dyer

  Drama, Struggle, Simple

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• When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.

  Keri Russell

  Age Difference, Differences, Clubs

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• It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.

  Simon Rex

  People, Interesting, Pedestal

  "From 'Dirt Nasty' To 'Rex': An Uncensored Interview With Celeb-Skewering Simon Rex". Interview with Steve Krakauer, www.mediaite.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

  Sadao Araki

  Army, Giving, Division

  "Until They Eat Stones" by Russell Brines, (p. 254), 1944.

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• When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Voice, Bars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you deejay a party, a good DJ's job is to take care of the crowd. If people want to hear Britney Spears, that's what you're supposed to do.

  Neil Armstrong

  Jobs, Party, People

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Halloween, Distance, Warrior

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

  Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

  Evil, Laughing, Leafs

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• I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Women, Long, Ends

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.563

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• Science is given almost no visibility in the media. If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to the conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.

  Michio Kaku

  Paris, Media, Visibility

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 09, 2009.

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• I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

  George Clooney

  Moving, Yards, Found

  "There Will Be Oscars". Interview with David Ansen, www.newsweek.com. January 17, 2008.

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• Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

  Emily Bronte

  Enemy, Violence, Ends

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.492, Penguin

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• If Britney Spears can party it up in Vegas with one of her boys and go get married on a whim and annul her marriage the next day, why can't a loving same sex couple tie the knot?

  Brendon Ayanbadejo

  Sex, Couple, Party

  "Same Sex Marriages: What’s the Big Deal?". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

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• I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Army, Design, Decision

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• The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name

  Rob Zombie

  Hurt, Thinking, Names

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• His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

  John Milton

  Support, Steps, Burning

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 292

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