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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When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.
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I've seen a therapist at different points in my life for different reasons.
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Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.
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The greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail, and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the publick; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are vehement and clamorous, only that they may be sooner hired to be silent.
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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.
