Minna Antrim Quotes
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.Minna Antrim
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I really love peace and quiet.
Barry Sanders -
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
Barbara Kingsolver -
The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
Xavier Dolan -
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
Madeleine Albright -
My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.
Taylor Negron -
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.
Adele -
Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.
Eliot Spitzer -
It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.
Albert Einstein -
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
William Howard Taft -
When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
A certain ounce of arrogance is not essential in carrying forward an idea. In talking about the device with others, surprising now number of people who either were quite negative and had reasons to suggest it would not function as described or claimed that it would be of little interest and no better than some already existing device.
Willard Boyle
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Im as country as a dozen eggs.
Elvin Bishop -
Unfortunately, propaganda works.
Andy Rooney -
I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age -
I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
Jack Welch -
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Minna Antrim