Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

Tobias Smollett

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• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  

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• The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

  

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• I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.

  

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• I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.

  

  Yuna
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  • Beautiful
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• At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
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  • Opinion

• Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

  

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  • Women
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• Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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• I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • People
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• I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

  

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• Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.

  

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• I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People
  • God
  • May

• Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God

• It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Up
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• We never thought we'd get this far, but we're here.

  

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  • Never
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• I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Trying

• Clearly, President Bush lied. Now if he is an unconscious liar, and doesn't realize when he's lying, then we're really in trouble.

  

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• Running businesses of all sizes and stages, I've seen the challenges companies face in trying to identify, attract, and retain talent.

  

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  • Trying
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• With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Good
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• I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'

  

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• Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Love
  • Individual
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• You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.

  

  Blythe Danner
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• The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • Life
  • Art
  • Painting

• The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Time
  • Support
  • Body