A Quote by Simeon Strunsky

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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Famous Correctly Remarks Seldom Very

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Simeon Strunsky
American - Writer
July 23, 1879 - February 5, 1948

God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

Lauren Bacall

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

Lee Marvin

God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.

Lauren Bacall

I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.

Frances Trollope

I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.

Tom Lehrer

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

Cullen Hightower

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Ambrose Bierce

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

Pola Negri

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

Isaac D'Israeli

If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a hundred more times men were quoted.

Fei-Fei Li

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.

Nicholas Sparks

The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

John Shelby Spong

So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous.

Linus Torvalds

When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.

John Shelby Spong

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.