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My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career. John Waters
These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. Douglas Adams
He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are nave enough to confuse this with anti-imperialism that they think of him as being rather more to the left than he really is. Christopher Hitchens
Alexander Dumas quote: "Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money."
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money. Alexander Dumas
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. Oscar Wilde
It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile. L. M. Montgomery
Dr. Seuss quote: "Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky."
Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky. Dr. Seuss
It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar. Edward Said
Jane Austen quote: "for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a..."
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. Jane Austen
We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main nerve." I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear. Hunter S. Thompson
Thomas Mann quote: "No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. Thomas Mann
People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human. Carson McCullers
Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the solar system of stars. With the Model T, part of the concept of private property disappeared. Pliers ceased to be privately owned and a tire pump belonged to the last man who had picked it up. Most of the babies of the period were conceived in... John Steinbeck
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite. Richard Dawkins
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to..."
It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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