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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

– W. C. FieldsRate it:

It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream.

– Dr. Jose P. RizalRate it:

It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power.

– Ray DickinsonRate it:

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

– George Pratt ShultzRate it:

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.

– Leonard BernsteinRate it:

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.

– A. M. RosenthalRate it:

it was bad said, but it was bad meant.

– Severin MeilandRate it:

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

– O. HenryRate it:

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

– HomerRate it:

it was clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated. My problem was one which I feel compelled to define with brutal candor: how to kill him without getting into trouble... I had no qualms about causing the death of a fellow from whose nonexistence the college would benefit

– Kenneth J DoverRate it:

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

– May SartonRate it:

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the 70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

– Ann WilsonRate it:

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

– Mark TwainRate it:

It was far off from normality. Too inchoate to the existence.

– Nargiz AliyevaRate it:

It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'

– Thomas ArnoldRate it:

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.

– Charles GrodinRate it:

It was he who pauseed for a moment in life, took that moment to take a breathe and see from all eyes then that enables ones ability to see what's important and what you choose to make matter. Your truth.

– H L ChehaliRate it:

It was in rebuttal to the 4P’s concept that had been the cornerstone of marketing teaching since 1960 or so (and still may be, in many places). I felt that the 4P’s was wrong-headed because it looked at the marketing process from the company out, instead of from the customer in, which I felt was backwards.

– Robert F. LauterbornRate it:

It was just you, who broke trust, and heart

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

– Alan MooreRate it:

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

– Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.Rate it:

It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.

– John BlasikRate it:

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

– Stevie NicksRate it:

it was my trench town reggae in the music of the rasta messengers like-burning spear- culture(joseph hill)- and others that taught the world that- christopher columbus was a liar. He did not discover jamaica nor america. So why are we still honoring him today?

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