George Washington Quotes

We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.'

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• Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Same
  • Editing
  • Exactly

• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Good
  • You
  • Proud

• I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Writer

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
  • Tradition
  • Kings

• Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Magic
  • Almost

• The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Education
  • Really
  • Skills

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Why

• I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Getting
  • Awards
  • Presents

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Trying
  • Black

• I do think it's possible to change for the better.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Change
  • Better

• In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Something
  • Africa
  • Masses

• I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Enough
  • Lucky
  • Helmet

• One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • May
  • Past
  • Powerful

• He suspected the troops felt closer to somebody who spoke a different language but asked them questions than they did to somebody who shared their language and only ever used it to give orders.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Different

• There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Missing

• Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Action

• If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • Long
  • Rock
  • Sex

• LONG LIVE THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION!

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Revolution

• With this show [Stand-Up Revolution ], I loved the idea that I would be picking the talent that goes on, not the network. It was me handpicking people who might not have gotten the chance to be on TV. So, I thought it was real cool that I was putting people up there.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.'

  

  George Washington
  • Revolution
  • Quitter
  • Kentuckians