Regular Quotes
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I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.
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More Regular Quotes
"That's not a regular rule: you invented it just now." "It's the oldest rule in the book," said the King. "Then it ought to be Number One," said Alice.
Lewis Carroll— 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.12, 'Alice's Evidence'.
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
ernest hemingway— Letter (15 May 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.
luca pacioli— From the book De divina proportione
I realised fairly early that the 'wisdom of the ages' - whether from 3000 years ago or yesterday - often was simply and perfectly adaptable to the context of the football arena, and immensely valuable. From my regular morning habit of reading, I would write down any wise, pragmatic and smart quotes and ideas that struck me, and that I felt could be of use in coaching.
jack gibson— On how he displayed the ability to deliver a one-liner or quote that always perfectly summed up a situation.
I do not see to what purpose we exercise a superintendency over all inferior jurisdictions, unless it be to inspect their proceedings, and see whether they are regular or not. I have often heard it said that nothing shall be presumed one way or the other in an inferior jurisdiction.
john pratt— Rex v. Cleg (1722), 1 Stra. 476.
And behold the greatest mystery of them all: an unopened can of diet Pepsi floats in water while an unopened can of regular Pepsi sinks.
neil degrasse tyson— Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
'I only took the regular course.' 'What was that?' inquired Alice. 'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, 'the Mock Turtle replied; 'and then the different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'
Lewis Carroll— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 9: 'The Mock Turtle's Story' (1865)
He had great ideas upon the importance of a regular and almost daily visit to the dentist. He himself went to a dentist as he would have gone to a hairdresser's, and he insisted that all the little girls he knew should go too.
isa bowman— Page 71 (The Story of Lewis Carroll (1899))
"A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad", I continued, "if you were a regular black, and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly."
emily brontë— Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?
theodore l. cuyler— P. 149. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I, Tivadar Kosztka, who gave up his prime of youth for the rebirth of the world, accepting the call of the invisible Spirit, had a regular civil job, comfort, wealth then ... Going to Paris in 1907 I oppositely standed alone in front of millions with only the result of the divine providence, and I beat the vanity of the world hollow, but I haven't killed 10 million people, only sobered them. I haven't made commercials from things, because I didn't care for the pedlar's press; I retired from the world instead, going to the top of the Lebanons, and I painted cedars.
tivadar csontváry kosztka— The Positivum. Written between 1910 - 1920.
The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington.
jerry springer— Democratic Veteran, interview with Jo Fish 06/23/03
Whether I'm a Super Bowl Champion or a regular guy stocking groceries at the Hy-Vee, sharing my faith and glorifying Jesus is the central focus of my time on this earth.
kurt warner— Kurt Warner's Testimony. Eadshome.com (July 19, 2006). Retrieved on November 16, 2008.
I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.
christiaan huygens— (1691) quoted in Popular Astronomy, Vol. 56 (1948), pp. 189–190.
I quit work two weeks later--having sold another eighty of my hours--and knew I could never again work a regular job.
derrick jensen— p. 110-111
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof .
donald knuth— Digital Typography, ch. 33, p. 649 (1999)
They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that are things in being gay, they were gay every day, they were regular, they were gay, they were gay the same length of time every day, they were gay, they were quite regularly gay.
Gertrude Stein— "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene"This story about two lesbians, written in 1911, and published in Vanity Fair magazine in July 1923, is considered to be the origin of the use of the term "gay" for "homosexual", though it was not used in this sense in the story.
In the same manner the voice executes its movements in concentric circles; but while in the case of water the circles move horizontally on a plane surface, the voice not only proceeds horizontally, but also ascends vertically by regular stages. Therefore, as in the case of the waves formed in the water, so it is in the case of the voice: the first wave, when there is no obstruction to interrupt it, does not break up the second or the following waves, but they all reach the ears of the lowest and highest spectators without an echo.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 7
In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick; A metaphor taken I have not the page aright From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.
richard harris barham— Richard Harris Barham, Brothers of Birchington, Nicomachean Ethics, section I, records Aristotle's definition of a happy man, a four cornered, perfectly rectangular man, a faultless cube. ("A perfect brick.").
All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.”
— Quinn Cummings, in The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling, p.21
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Monroe (June 18, 1813); in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb (1903), vol. 13, p. 261.
Basic to successful project management is recognizing when the project is needed in other words, when to form a project, as opposed to when to use the regular functional organization to do the job. At what point in time do the changes in
— David I. Cleland and William R. King (1968) Systems Analysis and Project Management. New York: mcgraw-Hill, p. 154
I'm not like a regular mom, I'm a cool mom!
Mrs. George— Played by Amy Poehler in Mean Girls (2004).
A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation."
— Notwithstanding My Weakness, 1981, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City, Utah), pg. 7
Oh how the Vacancy Laughed at them rushing by. "Turn again, flesh and brain, Only yourselves again! How far above the ape Differing in each shape, You with your regular Meaningless circles are!"
edith sitwell— Edith Sitwell, Façades, (1922), "Switchback"
It was a DJ style which helped to create the lifestyle which came to be known as hip hop. At the beginning of the disco era in the first half of the 1970s, regular disco jocks in clubs were most concerned with the blend between one record and the next - matching tempos to make a smooth transition which, at its best, could continually alter the mood on the dancefloor without breaking the flow. At its worst the technique could turn the night into one endless and inevitably boring song.
— David Toop (1991). Rap Attack 2: African Rap To Global Hip Hop, p.12. New York. New York: Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1852422432.
