Nigel Rees Quotes
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations.
Nigel Rees
Quotes to Explore
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Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.
Olga Kurylenko
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It's nice to know that people are paying attention to you on the other side of the ball, but it's also kind of sad because you feel like you're a man that's being hunted down by some vicious animal. I feel they're going to come after me and do whatever they can to shut down the run, and that makes a difference with me in going out and doing my job.
Emmitt Smith
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libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands
Umberto Eco
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We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.
Billy Joel
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A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.
Betty Smith
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Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy....
Robert Frost
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The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.
D. H. Lawrence
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There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
Jim Gaffigan
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In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives.
Bettina Skrzypczak
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Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY.
Stevie Wonder
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
Abraham Lincoln
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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
Walter Gilbert
