William Standish Knowles Quotes
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
Fanny Kemble
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
Dan Brown
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
Fortune Feimster
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
Oscar Robertson
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
Earl Weaver
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.
Gayle Forman
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I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to America when she was five with my grandmother and grandfather, and that was the family I knew. Everybody sang; everybody had songs all the time, and they loved music.
Jeff Buckley
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The questions about my father are inevitable, regardless of the characters I create or the subject matter.
Owen King
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You should see the way I walk around on the way to the nursery. I look a state.
Katherine Kelly
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To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles
