“ Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.- Copy
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“ Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'. ”
- Mitch Hedberg- Copy
- 898
“ Get the luck idea out of your head. There is such a thing as luck. But that is not what you are looking for. What you want is success. And there's no luck about that. It's just as certain as the corn crop to those who know how to raise it. ”
- Frank Crane- Copy
- 109
“ Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. ”
- Henri Matisse- Copy
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“ It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side… and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. ”
- Billie Jean King- Copy
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“ No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore. ”
- Diana Vreeland- Copy
- 50
“ There's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes. The Republican tax cuts reward the few, our tax cuts invest in the future. ”
- Tom Daschle- Copy
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“ I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going. ”
- Rodney Dangerfield- Copy
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“ You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane. ”
- Roger Ebert- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3K
“ I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. ”
- John Ashbery- Copy
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“ How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
- 919
“ It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. ”
- Edith Wharton- Copy
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