(1137 quotes found)
“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
Samuel Butler
“I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.”
Dan Rather
“The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts into his work”
Carl Van Doren
“Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.”
Colin Powell
“Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.”
Walter Benjamin
“It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.”
Yeardley Smith
“No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.”
Bernard Levin
“Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment”
Will Rogers
“I'm flattered to be compared to (J.K.) Rowling because I think she's done an incredible amount for readers and fantasy. I'm a huge fan of hers, ... But the story and the world that I write about is completely different from Hogwarts and present-day Britain.”
Christopher Paolini
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