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I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob."

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

They look right. And you move left.

A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.

Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

I think I've got some more big plays left in me.

I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.

I'm lucky that I haven't been left out in the cold like Mumta Kulkarni or Meghna Kothari.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

I bought my son an indestructible toy. Yesterday he left it in the driveway. It broke my car.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.

What will you do with the time you have left?

After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.