H. L. Mencken Quotes
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.H. L. Mencken
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
Halle Berry -
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
Zainab Salbi -
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills -
Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
Aaron Neville -
For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
Imran Amed -
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Orison Swett Marden -
One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
Zadie Smith -
I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
Taylor Branch -
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
Cal Thomas -
I have to trust what I do and then do it.
Ednita Nazario -
I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
J. K. Simmons -
Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover -
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. Pritchett -
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
E. W. Howe -
It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
Larry King -
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
Eavan Boland
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The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.
Adam Smith -
I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
Mahershala Ali -
When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.
Stevie Wonder -
What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
Pablo Sandoval -
As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.
Demetri Martin -
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.
H. L. Mencken