John Sergeant Wise Quotes

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

John Sergeant Wise

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 27, 1846 - May 12, 1913

Topics

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I love many members of my staff. In fact, all the members of my staff. Do I love some more than others? Absolutely.

Robert J. Bentley

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I have to travel for my work, so the idea of getting on planes depresses me. They give me frequent-flyer points, and I think, 'I don't want them, because I'm sick of flying!'

Stephen Frears

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When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Stephen Hawking

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I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.

Trudie Styler

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It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

Ronald Coase

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For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

Jay S. Walker

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I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.

Josh Silver

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Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.

Jonathan Turley

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I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.

Deborah Tannen

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I'm very claustrophobic.

Brittany Snow

ClaustrophobicVery

I haven't had the occasion to meet Adele. She lives in England. So when I'm flying, or when she comes over here, perhaps we'll have a chance. I think she's a very fine singer, a very strong writer and performer.

Aretha Franklin

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