J. L. Austin Quotes
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.
Quotes to Explore
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries...What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.
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You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
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It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.
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However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.
