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- Nov 07, 2020
Dash Quotes
One small word, many different rushes.
Dash turns out to be a surprisingly flexible word in these quotes - a military rush toward a capital city, a competitive ego, even a splash of vinegar used to ward off flies. This page collects every one of those senses in a single place. Compare with American quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very close friend of Dash Snow's, so whenever I get a chance to revisit his work, that's always amazing for me.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020