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Tryon Edwards Quotes

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: theologian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1809 - January 4, 1894

Topics

Moment Death End Bread May Appetite

Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.

Work Good Opportunity Good Work Grow

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

Life Time Loved My Life Attention

The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and mannerism, so I started impersonating all of his characters as an 8th grader.

Live Night Short Saturday Crystal

Like most women, I always dreamed of becoming a mother.

Mother Women Always Becoming Like

I went where the boys in the family went. We would shoot basketball. We would shoot guns. We'd play cards. We'd go fishing at the pond.

Family Fishing Basketball Cards Play

Beyonce is not above critique. As a feminist herself, I hope Beyonce would welcome it.

Hope Welcome Above Herself Would

Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well.

Good Women Sports Gold American Run

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Myself Hate Day People Interesting

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

Music Great People World Think Way

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

History Art Bird World Song Wild

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Song Better Person Than Wrote Sells

I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn't a dream. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten.

Peter Bogdanovich

Believe Dream She Something Really

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