H. L. Mencken Quotes

If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday.

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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Acting is in your soul.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.
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The secret to podcast success is sticking with it and making it fun for yourself.
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I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
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When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
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My dad loved to 'arrange things' to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He'd take us to the old 'Hermit's House' at the edge of town. He'd park the car 100 yards down the street and say, 'Go back there and get something off the front porch!'
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If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday.