Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

Topics

LifeHeartJoyMeMy LifeHim

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

Jimmy Connors

LifeFamilyMy LifeImportantYears

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

John Bruton

AloneTogetherTexasInvestmentPut

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

John Burnside

BirdsGoNowMoreStillPesticides

You have to hear from people who believe something different from you. That's why you go to college.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

PeopleCollegeBelieveYouGoWhy

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

Matthew McConaughey

CoolNeverLitterThingsMany

Our argument is everybody ought to be paying lower rates, and we ought to be focused on growing the economy and rebuilding the middle class.

Steve Scalise

ArgumentGrowingFocusedClassOur

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Rita Dove

ChildThoughtLovedYouChildish

In L.A., we have a saying - 'What do you do?' It's less of a question and more of a self-defense mechanism for wayward screenwriters looking to slip you a first draft, or the occasional actor looking to get in on the latest shoot. But I hate the question because of my own answer - I write about games.

Rob Manuel

HateLookingSayingYouActorGames

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Josef Albers

ArtPerceptionColorNeverSeen

Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.

Jonathan Turley

RiseTransparencySystemAutonomy

With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal.

Douglas Brunt

GoodAgeDayYouDownYoung

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

David Shields

BookMoreContentBetweenSubstance

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