Occasional famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
-- Brian Eno -
Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?
-- Buwei Yang Chao -
The price for men in motion is the occasional collision...
-- Carroll Smith -
Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?
-- Charles Templeton -
Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".
-- Deb Caletti -
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
-- Henry Adams -
All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
-- John Ruskin -
I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.
-- Kenneth Hare -
Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.
-- Mariella Frostrup -
God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.
-- Max Lucado -
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
-- Neil Peart -
There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.
-- Ray Winstone -
Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
-- Robert Benchley -
She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.
-- Steig Larsson -
Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.
-- Tad Williams -
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
-- Tillie Olsen -
The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.
-- Thomas Lux
