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Has Beens Quotes - Page 25

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mountain, Backsides, Has Beens

I have been eating poetry.

Mark Strand
Eating, Has Beens
"Eating Poetry" l. 1 (1980)

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

Mario Vargas Llosa
Thinking, Literature, Has Beens
"Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

Lincoln Steffens
Done, University, Has Beens
Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.124, Heyday

We have been saying this, both pre season and before the season started

Len Ashurst
Soccer, Has Beens, Seasons

A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.

Lee Haney
Merit, Problem, Has Beens

There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.

Laure Manaudou
Hard Times, People, Has Beens

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Kurt Vonnegut
Has Beens
Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.20, Dial Press

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

Kim Cattrall
Vulnerable, Havens, Has Beens

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

Joyce Carol Oates
Writing, Lost, Has Beens

Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.

Joseph Sobran
Constitution, Evolve, Has Beens

Sarah Palin has been tagged and released back into the wild.

Jon Stewart
Palin, Tagged, Has Beens

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

Jon Pertwee
Actors, Serious, Has Beens
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

John Quincy Adams
Years, Has Beens, Customs

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

Jocelyn Murray
Heart, Feels, Has Beens

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

Jerry Kramer
Whole Life, Whole, Has Beens

I have been able to sniff out a phony.

Jennifer Coolidge
Able, Phony, Has Beens
Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

Ian Somerhalder
Cameras, Has Beens, Ten

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

Henry Hazlitt
Precious Metal, Metals, Has Beens
Henry Hazlitt (1959). “The failure of the "new economics": an analysis of the Keynesian fallacies”

If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.

Graham Kendall
Has Beens, Ifs

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

Gore Vidal
Drama, Self, Has Beens
Gore Vidal, Donald Weise (1999). “Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings”

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

Gore Vidal
Names, Wish, Has Beens
"A life in feuds: how Gore Vidal gripped a nation" by Jay Parini, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2015.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Germaine Greer
Change, Memorable, Has Beens
Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.

George R. R. Martin
Fighting, Hopeless, Has Beens
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2566, Bantam

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

Gene Watson
Singing, Has Beens

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