Spoil Quotes - Page 15

• I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

  Patrick Troughton

  Thinking, Magic, Acting

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

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• It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Silence, Covering, Sauce

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• Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.

  Iain McGilchrist

  Different, World, Matter

  Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.401, Yale University Press

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• While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Anxiety, Finishing, Unnecessary

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• Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

  Yann Martel

  Beauty, Beautiful, Dirty

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.60, Vintage Canada

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Genius, Modesty, Little Women

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Use, Advertising

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.38, A&C Black

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• While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Risk, Taste, Fruit

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• It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."

  Steve Ballmer

  Workout, Crazy, Sleep

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• We were looking at weather and our relationships with weather. It goes to a few other places, and I don't want to spoil anything, so I won't go into it, but it's about a willingness to expose oneself a little bit more and share something openly and honestly. It's more than just landing tricks. Moving forward, this is just another stepping stone.

  Travis Rice

  Moving Forward, Weather, Want

  Source: www.outdoorjapan.com

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• Then to the victor go the spoils. You rise up by lifting, you know, each other up. You win. And so isn't this the time to be magnanimous like Donald Trump is and not to be, you know, predicting or projecting on to the press how they must cover him. They're going to cover him how they see fit.

  Megyn Kelly

  Winning, Fit, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Germany had come late to feast at the table of colonialism and did not feel that the division of colonial spoils at that particular moment in time reflected its true strength and its true weight in the imperialist world.

  Gerald Horne

  Colonialism, Germany, Division

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• I feel like you have to go looking for spoilers. I'm not on social media, so I will watch a show that was on ten years ago, and clearly I could find out every single piece of information about that show, but I'm not trying to spoil myself. You definitely participate in your own spoiling.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Media, Years, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.

  Taryn Manning

  Surprise, Shakes

  Source: m.etonline.com

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• I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.

  Jonathon Keats

  Light, Years, Black

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

  George Sanders

  Flower, Men, Winning

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• All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Art, Errors, Stupidity

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• If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Memories, Childhood

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• Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sports, Swimming, Rushing

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• The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Men, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.40, B Times

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• A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

  William C. Bryant

  Division, Fields, Politician

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• They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

  Raymond Chandler

  Names, Hollywood, Use

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the - the precious part, so to speak - I guess all land is precious, but the part that the people uniformly would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled. But there are parts of the monument lands where we can explore without affecting the overall environment.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Land, People

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• You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Discworld, Hermits, Teach

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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