“ Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong, he'll go to jail, and if he files it right, he'll go to the poor house. ”
- Nonnee Coan- Copy
- 734
“ Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A roadie had some difficulties downloading a certain file. I was able to fix it myself. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 798
“ I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
- 874
“ You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care. ”
- Ellen Goodman- Copy
- 316
“ We agreed that by December 1 we will sign 29 documents between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, and another 15 documents by March 1, 2006. ”
- Vladimir Putin- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. ”
- George Jackson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file. ”
- unattributed truth from r.g.frp- Copy
- 1.1K
“ For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort. ”
- Rubye Fields- Copy
- 3.5K
“ In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower? ”
- Warren Hutcherson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ”
- Dr. Joyce Brothers- Copy
- 2.9K
“ If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. ”
- Tony Benn- Copy
- 660
“ To speak the Truth, tis a thorough Aversion to Labor that makes People file off to N Carolina, where Plenty and a Warm Sun confirm them in their Disposition to Laziness for their whole Lives. ”
- William Byrd- Copy
- 955
“ He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 2.1K
“ For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
- 45
“ For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file - the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur-trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer - and the frontier has passed by… ”
- Frederick Jackson Turner- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! ”
- John Irving- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There's a great museum in Cody, Wyo., called the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. I went to their research library about 15 or 20 years ago and looked through their files and saw my mother, her sister and my uncle as descendents in the family tree. It was pretty cool. ”
- Viggo Mortensen- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues nonnegotiable demands may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his victory the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 519
“ For something like 15 years, all I did was films or, you know, movies that I thought were going to be films that ended up going directly to video. It was sort of a real narrow opportunity. And now, working on The X-Files has broadened it and I'm looking for whatever is good, good dialogue. ”
- Robert Patrick- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I enjoyed the crew. The best part about 'The X-Files' has been the crew. This crew is an exceptional family and to go to work with a bunch of people that you really like is great. They're all the best of the best and they really try to do the best job they can… ”
- Robert Patrick- Copy
- 863
“ New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary. ”
- Colin Quinn- Copy
- 3K
“ All I remember - I don't actually remember or know what night it was I talked to him but I assume it was that night because he did mention that the rumor was out that we were getting ready to file a charge of Oswald being part of an international conspiracy, and I told him that that was not going to be done. ”
- Henry Wade- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I'm so obsessed with this theme that I actually keep a "failure file." What stands out for me in the biographies of Faulkner and Fitzgerald are the months and years they wasted out in Hollywood, getting sodden over their squandered gifts. Cyril Connolly, one of the most distinguished critics of his day, made his name with a book, Enemies of Promise, that elegiacally bemoaned his lack of distinction… ”
- James Atlas- Copy
- 1K
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