Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

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• Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.

  

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• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

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• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

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• There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

  

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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

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• When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

  

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• You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.

  

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• I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

  

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• It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

  

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• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  

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• I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

  

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• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

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• Birth was the death of him.

  

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• Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

  

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• I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

  

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• There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

  

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• There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

  

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• No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

  

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• The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

  

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• There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

  

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• If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Good
  • Sense
  • Too Much