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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Quotes

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 17, 1825 - January 23, 1893

Topics

I Am Mind Speech Pen Write Torture

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

John Entwistle

Mind Doing Play Want Out Get

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

Life Friendship Shadow Sun Evening

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

John Varvatos

Music Think Someone New Want Way

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

Sophie Okonedo

Character Look I Can Go Actor Way

I can remember exactly where I was when I saw 'The Matrix' for the first time.

Miguel Angel Silvestre

Time Remember I Can First Time First

In Europe, the leagues have been around 100 years.

David Villa

Years Europe 100 Years Been Around

My goal is always to do something that feels just beyond my reach, and 'Homeland' continues to do that. Every season, they find new ways to scare me. The show is like a diamond that fell from the sky. I'll always feel slightly bludgeoned by it, but in the best way possible.

Claire Danes

Best Sky Me Feel Reach Goal

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Alice Miller

Character Children Parents Why Fact

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

William Wycherley

Men Friends Judgment See May Books

Obviously, there are those in the industry who don't give romance novels the level of respect the sales would warrant. They'll talk about a book that sells maybe 100,000 copies, that happens to be very literary, whereas something like 'Crossfire' will sell 13 million copies in a single language and hardly get any mentions at all.

Sylvia Day

God Walk Day You Down Street

People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?'

Peter Sis

Age Children People Flowers Book

The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.

Pete Cashmore

Health Challenges Internet Feel You