Washington Irving Quotes
His wife 'ruled the roost,' and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.
Washington Irving
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
Walter Kirn
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
Laura Bell Bundy
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
Taran Killam
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
Dag Hammarskjold
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We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.
John Clayton
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Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.
William Cowper
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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
Aasif Mandvi
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I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other's best friend.
Corbin Bernsen
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Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought when someone is constantly asking me to do something? I don't think Plato would have been able to write his dialogues if he had a wife who kept bugging him to pass the pita bread.
Twinkle Khanna
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His wife 'ruled the roost,' and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.
Washington Irving
