Washington Irving Quotes

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

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• A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Feeling
  • City

• It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Great
  • Win

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Psycho

• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Deep

• I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Hope
  • Say
  • Competitive

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Born
  • Generation
  • Decade

• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Taken

• We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Bold
  • Message
  • Forward

• Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Success
  • Fashion
  • Doing

• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Enough

• The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Greatest

• But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Today
  • Media

• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Great
  • Reading

• Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Women
  • School
  • Art

• I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Great
  • Hate

• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Great
  • Rise
  • Rise Above