tess Quotes and Quotations
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tess Quotes and Quotations
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. Henri Frederic Amiel | top
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. Hannah Arendt | top
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It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. Brooks Atkinson | top
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To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. Max Beerbohm | top
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. John Berger | top
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. Milton Berle | top
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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. George Eliot | top
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I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young. Dakota Fanning | top
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. Gene Fowler | top
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I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part. Eva Gabor | top
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare. Uta Hagen | top
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War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. Gustav Heinemann | top
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Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them. Fannie Hurst | top
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. Amy Lowell | top
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Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play. Ann Miller | top
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. Florence Nightingale | top
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus | top
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Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London. Cynthia Payne | top
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The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. Albert Pike | top
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Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal! Daniel Pinkwater | top
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My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime. Tavis Smiley | top
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I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image. Michael York | top
