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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. - G K Chesterton Quotes
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we dont know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. - Tom Glazer Quotes
Im not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinseys perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip. - Sue Grafton Quotes
I can make dressing - or stuffing. Yall call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. Its really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that. - Edie Brickell Quotes
Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work. - Marsha Blackburn Quotes
It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border. - William Bartram Quotes
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. - Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin Quotes
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law. - Walter Wager Quotes
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. - Victor Hugo Quotes
There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didnt want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it. - Walter Lord Quotes
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. - Ellen Glasgow Quotes
Next door, theres an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. Im sorry, I know thats a strange way to tell you that I know we belong. - Ben Folds Quotes
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that \"thousands\" has almost passed out of the dictionary. - Everett Dirksen Quotes
I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know. - Dick Van Dyke Quotes
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. - Adelbert Von Chamisso Quotes
My mother taught me to read when I was still quite young, and at least in my memory I passed the majority of my childhood reading. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. - Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
My dad was a big fisherman. He passed away, but a lot of time I spent growing up was on the water, so a lot of my best memories are from that. - John C Reilly Quotes
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. - Simon Van Der Meer Quotes
Its a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. Its been passed down through the generations. Its the culture of the Australian team. - Ricky Ponting Quotes
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father. - Joel Osteen Quotes
The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year. - Mark Kennedy Quotes
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today. - Michael Mccaul Quotes
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. - Karl Philipp Moritz Quotes
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away. - Mac Davis Quotes
My youth passed at the time of the countrys reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. - Lech Walesa Quotes
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments. - Melina Mercouri Quotes
In the summer of 1851, when I had passed the age of sixteen, we lived in a little school district a mile or two from the town of Yarmouth, N. S. - Simon Newcomb Quotes
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. - Pierre Loti Quotes
Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the citys first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year. - Laura Miller Quotes
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