Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhowe...
Intellectual brilliance is no guarentee against being dead wrong ." -- David Fasold
A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
-- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short story write...
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence.
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life....
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
-- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short story write...
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
-- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short story write...
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word.
The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense....
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen (1935-____) U.S. comedian, actor, directo...
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year. . . for cheating on my metaphysics final.
You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me....
In Beverly Hills. . . they don't throw their garbage away.
They make it into television shows. -- Woody Allen (1935-____) U.S. comedian, actor, directo...

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