Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
Samantha Harvey
I'm not that interested in people.
Taylor Caldwell
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
Nathan Myhrvold
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
An Wang
Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
Andy Grove
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.
Bela Bartok
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
They love the country, and none else, who seek
For their own sake its silence and its shade.
Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
Susceptible of pity, or a mind
Cultured and capable of sober thought.
William Cowper
I don't care who you are, but you turn into a different person when you don't sleep.
Vinny Guadagnino
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides
If you're a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments - not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.
T. J. Miller
For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.
Henry Paulson
