Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.Edwin Percy Whipple
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Yogi Berra -
When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
Owen Wister -
My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.
J. A. Jance -
I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
Anderson Cooper -
You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?
J. B. Smoove
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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.
Saddam Hussein -
The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.
Ryan Phillippe -
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
John Stuart Mill -
If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.
Lao Tzu -
We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.
William Peter Blatty -
I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.
Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
William of Occam -
You can't out-perform your self-image.
William James -
I guess it's not my year right now. The wind changed the game a lot and, you know, there really was a big wind today but, you know, both of us were on the court.
Anastasia Myskina -
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
Edwin Percy Whipple