Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 18, 1865 - March 2, 1946

Topics

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Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Andrew Davies

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The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

Angela Featherstone

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Nice is different than good.

Stephen Sondheim

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As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

Troy Brown

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Since the Reagan era, Republicans have prescribed cuts for rich people and corporations as a cure-all. But every time they put their theory into practice, the rich just get richer, and everyone else gets left behind.

Tom Steyer

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Although the president has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly.

Rod Rosenstein

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Fate destined me to play 'Fagin.' It was the part of a lifetime.

Ron Moody

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I am a bit O.C.D. I have a colour-coordinated bookcase. The books are arranged by the colour of the spine. It looks cool, but people come in and think I am slightly mental.

Russell Tovey

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You can't be 16 forever.

Molly Ringwald

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There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

Jon Scieszka

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I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.

Jonathan Franzen

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Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

Jonathan Haidt

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