Washington Irving Quotes
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Washington Irving
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
Viggo Mortensen
I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
Jack Nicklaus
There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
T. J. Miller
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
Tabitha Soren
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
Haniel Long
Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.
Felipe VI of Spain
If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
Barack Obama
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are.
Brian May
Queen
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Washington Irving
