Miles Kington famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.
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Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.
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Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.
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The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.
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So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.
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Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise to the observation that the long-range weather forecast was wrong most of the time. In turn, this gave rise to the dropping of the long-range weather forecast and to the admission that really accurate forecasting could only cover the next day or two, and not always then.
-- Miles Kington
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To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target
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Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
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Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap
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I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
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Women move through the world never knowing their power.
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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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