William Congreve Quotes
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
Kary Mullis -
I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
E. L. Doctorow -
Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
Walter Huston -
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Lady Bird Johnson -
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
Carl Barks -
I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
Walter Annenberg
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
Naomi Klein -
When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
Callum Blue -
There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
Adam Osborne -
Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
Quentin Tarantino -
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields -
California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
Gavin Newsom
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Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
Dan Quinn -
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
Federica Montseny -
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln -
If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.
Mara Wilson -
Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
Samuel Goldwyn -
How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
Orlando Bloom
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There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.
Isaac Watts -
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
Hans Hofmann -
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
Charles Dickens -
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
William Congreve