Stephen Leacock Quotes

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Stephen Leacock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944

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I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

Jeremy Grantham

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Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

John Edgar Wideman

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Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.

Andrew Nikiforuk

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Being a bride for Gaultier was a very special moment for me.

Andreja Pejic

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There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

Melanie Lynskey

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Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

Alva Myrdal

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I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

Alton Brown

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Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.

Stan Van Gundy

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I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

Shimon Peres

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I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

Tom Weston-Jones

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Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

Robin S. Sharma

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Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

Miroslav Vitous

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