Alice Morse Earle Quotes
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
Alice Morse Earle
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
Vince Vaughn
And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
Dana Rohrabacher
The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
A secret is powerful when it is empty.
Umberto Eco
I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
Ban Ki-moon
My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
Kate Bosworth
When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
Mahesh Babu
I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
Malik Jackson
As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
Orson Welles
Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.
David Dinkins
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
Ted Allen
When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.
Jack LaLanne
Barye... did not teach us much ; he was always worried and tired when he came, and always told us that it was very good.
Auguste Rodin
I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
Alice Morse Earle
