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

• Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Silly

• What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• But the fact that we can stand here today, along the fault line where a city was divided, speaks to an eternal truth: No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Today

• Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

  

  Phylicia Rashad
  • Heart

• So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Clouds
  • Eagle

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

  

  Minna Antrim
  • Heart
  • Tongue
  • Reins