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John Fiske Quotes

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: 1842 - 1901

Topics

Day Me Wine Feeling Go Bread

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.

Work Marriage Day Cooking Together

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

Reach Wealth Out Up Economic Exist

I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.

Myself Writing Doing Up Careless

I think England are probably not as streetwise as plenty of other teams. The other top teams know how to keep a victory or do certain things to hang on to leads or get back in games. They're a lot more streetwise than us. I think as a nation we are very honest, we try to win the right way.

Win Victory Think Back Know Way

One thing I do like about L.A. is the fact that you can be - whether you're famous or it's just a matter of, like, seeing people you know all the time on the street, you can be pretty anonymous and walk around and, like, not run into people, because it's such a big city and because a lot of people drive.

Time Walk People City Drive You

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

Jonny Greenwood

Work Busy Work Ethic You Guilty Old

Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information.

Life Day Me Credit Information Text

I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though, of course, at the time I had no experience writing horror music.

Christopher Young

Music Time Experience Writing Horror

If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.

Support Team You Leaving Going Lot

One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world's biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare.

Winfried Vahland

World Brand Year Selling Nothing

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

Good Saying Bicycle Back Basics

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

Culture Me Celebrity Pains Something

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