Minna Antrim Quotes

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Work
  • First
  • Drug

• I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Working
  • Captain
  • Waiter

• I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Father
  • Religious
  • Born

• There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Politics
  • Mad

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Fun
  • Left
  • Field

• It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • America
  • Know
  • Story

• Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Football
  • Baseball
  • Basketball

• Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foeman worthy of their steel.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Respect
  • Joy

• 'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Age

• Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

  

  Max Levchin

• We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.

  

  Benjamin Cohen
  • People

• I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Words
  • Couple
  • Husband

• To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

  

  James Allen
  • Desire

• I am still an Irish rebel to the backbone and the spinal marrow, a rebel for the same reason that John Hampden and Algernon Sidney, George Washington and Charles Carrol of Carroltown, were rebels—because tyranny had supplanted the law.

  

  Charles Gavan Duffy
  • Law
  • Irish
  • Rebel

• Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

  

  Minna Antrim
  • Heart
  • Tongue
  • Reins