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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
View quotes by Bernard Malamud

I don't try to be Captain Weird, I just do what I do.
View quotes by Johnny Depp

'You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow' - Pirates of the Caribbean
View quotes by Johnny Depp

I love the sound of a woman in the throes of rapture - but not screamers.
View quotes by Kevin Kline

Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for loves, and a little for the bottle. (Captain Wattle and Miss Roe)
View quotes by Charles Dibdin

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly. (Science for the Citizen)
View quotes by Lancelot Hogben

I am the captain of my soul
View quotes by Arthur W D Henley

I said 'Are you a Christian or a Jew?' He said 'Christian.' I said 'Me too! Protestant or Catholic?' He said 'Protestant.' I said 'Me too! What franchise?' He said 'Baptist.' I said 'Me too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?' He said 'Northern Baptist.' I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Reform Baptist?' He said 'Northern Conservative Baptist.' I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist or Northern Conservative Reform Baptist?' He said 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist.' I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Eastern Region?' He said 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region.' I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912 or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region of 1850?' He said 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.' I said 'Die heretic!' And I pushed him off the bridge!
View quotes by Emo Philips

The long arm of coincidence (Captain Swift)
View quotes by Haddon Chambers

The biggest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers. Captain Jack Sparrow
View quotes by Johnny Depp

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
View quotes by Frederick Scott Oliver

The tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind. (Introduction to his 1948 screen adaptation of Hamlet)
View quotes by Laurence Olivier

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. [Thus Spoke Zarathustra from the Chapter 'Of Reading and Writing']
View quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

You, Attali, are a mere chapter. I am the entire volume. (To his adviser)
View quotes by Francois Mitterand

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
View quotes by Andrew Carnegie

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
View quotes by Henry Kissinger

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
View quotes by Maya Angelou

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
View quotes by W H Auden

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
View quotes by Charles Baudelaire

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more.
View quotes by Lord Byron

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
View quotes by John Donne

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
View quotes by Leonardo Dicaprio

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
View quotes by John Dewey

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
View quotes by James Thurber

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
View quotes by Harry S Truman

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
View quotes by Henry Fielding

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
View quotes by Malcolm Forbes

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they markour limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless itis moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
View quotes by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
View quotes by J P Getty



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