Mark Twain Quotes
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.Mark Twain
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz -
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen -
My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
S. T. Joshi -
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
Aaron Douglas
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
Tamara Tunie -
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Fay Weldon -
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
Lajos Kossuth -
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot -
Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
Rahul Dravid -
I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
Viet D. Dinh -
I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
Cameron Dallas -
Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
Laura Wade -
The way to resumption is to resume.
Salmon Portland Chase -
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
W. H. Davies
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There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.
Frank McCourt -
As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
Venus Williams -
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
Nicolaus Copernicus -
George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.
Alice Ripley -
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
Aslan Maskhadov -
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain