Washington Irving Quotes
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
Quotes to Explore
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
Garry Disher
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
Orison Swett Marden
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Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
Iris Apfel
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
Patrick Duffy
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
Pat Summitt
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Cryptocurrencies are an emergent property of the Internet - almost a fifth protocol in the Internet suite. If Satoshi Nakomoto did not exist, it would still be necessary to invent them.
Naval Ravikant
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Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
Origen
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Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.
Haley Joel Osment
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Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.
Lincoln Kirstein
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
Malala Yousafzai
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
Salman Rushdie
