He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
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JONATHAN SWIFT When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI It's what Jonathan Swift suggested two and a half centuries ago: making two blades of grass grow whe...
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Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS A 'Fiddler' with no Jew … sounds crazy, no?
ALFRED MOLINA A 'Fiddler' with no Jew
sounds crazy, no?
ALFRED MOLINA James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.
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T. J. MILLER When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admi...
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ROSIE O'DONNELL We wanted to bring 'Fiddler,' and bring it to a larger audience.
ROY LEE If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.
NORMAN JEWISON The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
HENRY FIELDING He charmed rich women into giving him money and also ran a big racket trafficking in masses. There a...
BILL PUTNAM He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
EDWIN EDWARDS Fiddler on the Roof,
ALFRED MOLINA Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
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APURVA GAGLANI She's not a rogue, and she's not a saboteur.
ROSCOE HOWARD they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The rogue has suffered much. He needs someone to remind him of why he once believed in a good path.....
ELIZABETH CARLTON A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis...
GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS A man so various, that he seem'd to be
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Stiff in opinions, ...
JOHN DRYDEN A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he ...
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DEYTH BANGER Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe...
SHARIF MOHAMED She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
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DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When God finished putting together Dicky Roper, He took a deep breath and shuddered a bit, then He r...
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TONY HALL Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE He started talking about his wife and how she was taking advantage of him, spending his money, ... H...
GARY MCLARTY I've known Jonathan for years, and I see no indication that he would ever go about things in a cover...
PAUL WATSON I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though...
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BOB ECKER A 'Fiddler' with no Jew … sounds crazy, no?
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PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM Once the gold rush came, white settlement of the Rogue Valley was a quick bloom, and conflict with t...
MARK TVESKOV I'm a gypsy. A rogue. Wicked as they come.
DELILAH S. DAWSON I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.
MURIEL SPARK I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.
EVAN DANDO During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live...
GREG A. MULLINS This was an incredibly horrible tragedy. A tragedy for the Swift family and a tragedy for the Morgan...
FERN ADELSTEIN He did it. We know he did it. This is about whether that was the sole, individual intervening cause ...
CARL CORNWELL What of your sins, Rogue? If the hero encountered you today, would he spare you a date with his swor...
ELIZABETH CARLTON I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fidd...
RENEE FLEMING When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
ENGLISH PROVERB The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
POPE PAUL VI He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
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BIBLE I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"
There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.
His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
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EDWARD R. MURROW Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
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DEBORAH KERR He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
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And wink a reputation down!
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Pleasing most when most I speak;
The delight of old and young,
...
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JONATHAN SWIFT The rolling fictions grow in strength and size,
Each author adding to the former lies.
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JONATHAN SWIFT A college joke to cure the dumps.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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money, and hide them in a hole, whic...
JONATHAN SWIFT Hail, fellow, well met,
All dirty and wet:
Find out, if you can,
Who's master, who's man...
JONATHAN SWIFT They never would hear,
But turn the deaf ear,
As a matter they had no concern in.
JONATHAN SWIFT Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
[Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]
JONATHAN SWIFT Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
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That flattery's the food of fools;
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JONATHAN SWIFT May you live all the days of your life.
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JONATHAN SWIFT The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
JONATHAN SWIFT I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand
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JONATHAN SWIFT I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth
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JONATHAN SWIFT Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFT Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion
JONATHAN SWIFT Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titill...
JONATHAN SWIFT All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this ye...
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
JONATHAN SWIFT It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
JONATHAN SWIFT Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...
JONATHAN SWIFT