Washington Irving Quotes

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

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• I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

  

  Karen Gillan
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  • Model

• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Money
  • Leaving
  • Guys

• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
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• I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Myself
  • Fight
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• Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Want
  • Sex
  • Just Because

• If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Ego
  • Trophies

• I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Kind
  • Street

• This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Heart
  • Pressure
  • Argument

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Story

• The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Travel

• I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Myself
  • Used
  • Thrilled

• Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Power

• You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Situation

• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Myself

• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Teachers

• The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• My best friend is my husband.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Husband

• When they raise your hand, Oh my God, the feeling is unbelievable.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Hand

• I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • World
  • Good
  • Home

• A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Never
  • Tongue