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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. (Lawrence Durrell)
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. View quote
Margot Fonteyn
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. View quote
George Santayana
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. View quote
Alex Haley
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. View quote
George Orwell
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. View quote
Bill Watterson
People of Substance may Sin without being expos'd for their stolen Pleasure; but Servants and the Poorer sort of Women have seldom an Opportunity of concealing a Big Belly, or at least the Consequences of it. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. (Lewis Carroll)
Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a female nude or some sort of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order. View quote
Maurice Denis
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. View quote
Henry Adams
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it. View quote
Russell Baker
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes. View quote
Che Guevara
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort. View quote
Sigmund Freud
What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra. (Daniel Dennett)
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. View quote
James Madison
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. View quote
James Thurber
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. View quote
George Eliot
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
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