Jonathan Swift Quotes

Jonathan Swift: What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, ... | Citatis

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

Jonathan Swift

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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.

Sam Altman
- Long
- Bad
- Think
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

Chuck Berry
- Rock
- Used
- Rhythm
Artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.

Alan Alda
- Hope
- Words
- Feeling
Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.

Barack Obama
- Past
- Education
- Mean
Canada strongly condemns this terrorist act, and we are deeply troubled by such incidents. On behalf of all Canadians, we extend our deepest sympathies to the victims and their families.

Pierre Pettigrew
- Canada
- Terrorist
- Victims
I think it was a gift. I was very disappointed in my skate.

Sasha Cohen
- Gift
- Disappointed
- Skate