Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

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• The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Better

• My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Kid

• I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Important
  • War
  • Taken

• China is a society which forbids any flow of the information and freedom of speech. This is on record, so everybody should know this.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• You go through stuff, and you keep going.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Suffering
  • Slavery

• Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Game

• People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • People
  • Why
  • Crazy

• After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Up

• On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.

  

  David Gest
  • World
  • She

• In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Paris

• I was down in Wilmington, Delaware, doing 'The Desk Set' with Shirley Booth. I was at the DuPont Hotel. I walked out, and there was this grill next door called the New England Grill. I loved seafood. They said very nicely, 'We don't serve colored people.'

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • People
  • Door

• I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Work

• These candidates are all beholden to these super PACs.

  

  Corey Lewandowski

• I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • People
  • High
  • Small

• I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • City
  • Moon

• I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Small
  • Church
  • Nebraska

• The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Church
  • Brain