(1753 quotes found)
“The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.”
William MacNeile Dixon
“I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.”
William Shakespeare
“I have supped full with horrors.”
“Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth”
“Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.”
Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor
“One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.”
Paul Morand
“In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.”
Harold Bloom
“Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.”
Dan Millman
“She flung herself full-length on the stage, drummed with her feet and, taking the corner of a small Persian rug in her teeth, worried it [while] I sat rigid and appalled on the sofa, pressed back against the chintz cushions.”
Alec Guinness
