Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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I like shocking, but I don't like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it's not my main drive.
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For me, if I have done my duty, the continued approbation of Congress and the Marine Committee will make me rich indeed, and far more than reward me for a life of service devoted from principles of philanthropy, to support the dignity of human nature.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
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Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.
