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John Irving Quotes

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

John Irving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1942

Topics

Laughter People Sympathy Seriously

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

Joe Green

Community Win Small You Election

I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

Jennifer Morrison

Good Myself Money People Help Bad

After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.

John Vane

Medical Research Back Study Order

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

Myself Learn Enough Now Teach Years

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Mason Cooley

Naive Cynicism Disappointments Full

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

Chrissy Teigen

Person Than Twitter Much Nicer

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

Chris Moneymaker

Comfortable Games Two Hold Stud

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Bryant H. McGill

Failure Become Sanctuary Your

I was fortunate enough to see and handle and take in everything I could while I was playing.

Shaquille O'Neal

Enough Everything See Playing Handle

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

Tibor Fischer

Style Quality Writing You Whatever

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

Tim Pawlenty

Change Great Progress Political Back

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

Marilyn vos Savant

Funny Time Enough Know Skills Ahead