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He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Sydney Smith

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

Robert Benchley

Unlike occasional marijuana use, binge drinking can actually kill you.

Bruce Mirken

We try to balance the collection. The staff and I walk a tightrope, and there are occasional contests.

Herb Landau

A middle-class man making $40,000 might not be able to buy a new BMW. But he can buy the occasional bottle of vodka for $35 a bottle. People are drinking less than they once did, but they are drinking better.

David Ozgo

We have occasional hot spots, but that does not constitute a trend, ... The crime rate would be good for a week or two, then gone.

David Hopkins

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Henry S. Haskins

[X chromosomes - No Cowboy Artist has two of them, which has led to occasional charges of discrimination.] There are no rules or anything that it's an all-male organization, ... There hasn't been anyone that's been presented to the group that meets all of the qualifications.

Bill Owen

We don't have roads in Brazil. What we have are potholes interrupted by occasional patches of asphalt.

Sergio Mendes

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

Despite occasional bad news, hot money is still flowing into the local market as shown by the healthy turnover and with the index going beyond the 18,000 mark.

Kitty Chan

We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.

Dave Andrew

Thus far, though, based on the art, this book rocks. Great-looking cast, diabolical villains, evocative sense of time and place, and the odd, occasional giggle.

Chris Claremont

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

Charles Krauthammer

We're making progress. We're learning. We are having the expected occasional setbacks along the way, but our commitment to international (growth) is solid.

David Flanery

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

It is no major composition but an occasional work in the form of an exquisite and highly refined strophic aria, Bach's only contribution to a musical genre popular in late 17th-century Germany.

Christoph Wolff

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

We still expect to get these storm systems coming through and dumping occasional heavy rains.

Jim Bagnall

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

Neil Diamond

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Oswald Mosley

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

John Piper