Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
Apples quotes
Apples
810 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't."
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life."
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"Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them."
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"Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome."
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"All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99"
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"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."
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"Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company."
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"The tarter the apple, the tastier the cider."
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"When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple."
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"Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness."
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"So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul."
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"Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent."
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"I used to live with two other guys. We used to cook two things. The first one was called 'cheese... thing' and that was where you get something and you melt cheese over it and the first one to guess what it is doesn't have to wash up. That's obviously quite Mediterranean; the other one was less complex. It was just called 'cheese fantasy.' That's where you come in, very drunk, at about five in the morning and find an apple and just pretend there's some cheese on it."
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"The rotten apple spoils his companion."
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"If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life."
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"Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits."
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"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."
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"Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?"
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"When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain."
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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
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"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
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"It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man."
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