Horace Greeley Quotes

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

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• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Therapy

• I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Appreciate

• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Thought

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

  

  Edmund White
  • May
  • Death
  • Quality

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Me
  • Film
  • Level

• But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Think
  • Like
  • Athlete

• I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Know
  • Scary

• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Think
  • Change

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I'm not a very typical singer.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Very
  • Singer
  • Typical

• I love Evian face spray because it's a really easy way to just freshen up your face, especially if you're traveling on an airplane - I get really dry on airplanes.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Face
  • Traveling
  • Especially

• We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

  

  Walter Scott
  • See
  • Snow
  • Build

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'

  

  Pete Rose
  • Time
  • Long
  • Alone

• Long live the Republic, and long live France.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Long
  • Live

• We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Water
  • Dark

• My brand reflects my personal style. I think my inspiration comes from wanting to make clothes I want to wear and enjoy.

  

  Jessica Jung
  • Style
  • Inspiration
  • Enjoy

• In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Look
  • Looking

• The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

  

  Horace Greeley
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