H. L. Mencken Quotes

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

H. L. Mencken

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• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Seen

• I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • My Life
  • Financially

• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Pictures
  • Too

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• I'm kind of an antsy person.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Antsy

• I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Music
  • Understand
  • Hear

• Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Regrets

• 'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Men
  • Defeat

• It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Simple
  • Be Yourself

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Attached

• Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• I don't typically drink coffee.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Coffee

• When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in English, for instance, it's sometimes hard to switch back to very simple talking, like I am forced to do in Finnish. So a real conversation, when I really wanna tell something, I can't do it in Finnish.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • English
  • Language
  • Conversation

• A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• The basic ability to not wipe oneself out, to endure, to use your technological interaction with the world in such a way that has the possibility of the likelihood of lasting and not being temporary - that seems like a pretty good definition of intelligence.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • World
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

  

  Al Lewis

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian