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John Tyler Quotes

The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.

John Tyler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862

Topics

Life Best Mountain Storm War Battle

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

Joe Kennedy III

Father Me Name Doing Grandfather

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

John Otway

Enthusiasm Long You Belief Way Take

Once you have a small child who depends on you for every little thing, you're responsible for him. It's a huge responsibility. For me, it makes me into a more responsible person.

Matt Hardy

Responsibility Child Me Small You

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

Joyce DeWitt

Theatre Desire Hollywood Little Part

People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's craft, which, when I was starting out, was the most important thing: that you are as fully equipped for your job or your art as possible.

Joshua Sasse

Learning Art Job People You Want

I broke my wrist at summer camp playing a game called 'volleybat,' which was baseball but with a volleyball. It is as dangerous as it sounds.

Josh Gondelman

Baseball Game Dangerous Summer Broke

As we mature and grow older we collect a lot of baggage, and a lot of that stuff you collect on life's journey gets in the way of acting. My kids can imagine a character and transform in the blink of an eye. It's so simple for kids, so complex for adults.

David Wenham

Life Character Journey Simple Eye

I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.

David Weber

Hat Space People World Think Done

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Antonio Porchia

I Am Looking Stop Wanting Am

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson

Change You Want Try Enemies Make

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

Sylvester Stallone

Know Boxing Going Other Sort Each

If the Arab Spring was a large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda's ideology, the death of bin Laden was an equally large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda the organization.

Peter Bergen

Death Spring Organization Ideology