Don Marquis Quotes

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937

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The more you play, the more you feel part of the squad, and then, in turn, you end up playing better. I think it's a psychological gap as well - if you don't think you're a first-team player, then you won't be.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Jay McShann

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I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way.

Jonathan Van Ness

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Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

Donald Sutherland

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Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

Chris Crutcher

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Dementia pugilistica was discovered in 1928... And we still have boxing. Football will continue.

Chris Borland

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Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

Chris Raschka

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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

William Hurt

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Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

William J. Clinton

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One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.

Thomas McGuane

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Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

Norman Borlaug

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My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

Ryan White

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