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"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
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MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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LEE GOREN He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”

-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
ELIZABETH HOYT She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT If your husband's going to leave you for anyone, it might as well be Elizabeth Taylor.
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HENNY YOUNGMAN If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
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KYLE HILL If we didn't have contributions from companies and donors, a lot of things at the University wouldn'...
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KOICHI TANAKA I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
KATE BECKINSALE I would fly you to the moon and back if you’ll be . . . if you’ll be my baby(L)
JENNA RAY You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE I'll be looking at the moon,
but I'll be seeing you.
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now,...
ARTHUR MILLER If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
STEVEN WRIGHT If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
MARK HOPPUS If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
MARCELENE COX If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
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ROBERT B. PARKER If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a unive...
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CHINESE PROVERB If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the dis...
DAVID LEE Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.
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BRIAN BETHUNE If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
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ELIZABETH EDWARDS A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice
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WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON Then I saw a design. There on the map...For me, the migration had been to places and moments of glim...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not ...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and ...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON Be careful going in search of adventure -- it's ridiculously easy to find.
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to ho...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is per...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your pa...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people&#...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON All of those things - rock and men and river - resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the ...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United St...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON Sitting full in the moment, I practiced on the god-awful difficulty of just paying attention. It's a...
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR