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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #latter




I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.


George Takei


#convention #extent #flattering #i #phenomenon

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.


Michael Berryman


#eyes #flattery #hills #imitation

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.


James C. Maxwell


#flatter #human #human language #ideas #language

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.


Kyle Chandler


#because #better #go #had #i

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.


Robbie Fowler


#flattering #image #most #stuck

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.


Johann Kaspar Lavater


#bold #both #conquers #difficulties #diminishes

He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha!), how it was obvious from his nose and forehead that he wasn't some pig herd who had converted, but a true-blue Muslim who had flown here on a magic carpet all the way from Mecca, and he grunted with satisfaction


Aravind Adiga


#funny #funny

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)


Charles Dickens


#humor #plain #vanity #love

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.


Richie Ashburn


#base #baseball #became #because #believe

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.


George Chapman


#flatterers #friends #like #look #wolves