Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 17, 1879 - November 9, 1958

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There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

Joe Lando

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We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

Mehmet Oz

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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

Ann Brashares

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I don't ever remember wanting to do anything but coach. My dad obviously influenced me. But it wasn't because he sat there and drilled coaching stuff into our heads. We were on the bench keeping the scorebook and traveling with the team on weekends. It was such a great upbringing.

Jeff Van Gundy

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I would love having Winnie-the-Pooh stay here at the house. We could talk of food and what we were eating next. Maybe ponder that over a little morsel... and then take a little nap and dream of desserts.

Tony DiTerlizzi

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I'm not a very good actor.

Tom Sturridge

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The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.

Louis MacNeice

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Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to dress my teenage daughter Gabby. So it was the perfect street wardrobe: jeans, anoraks, jumpsuits, boyfriend jackets, sweaters, skirts and dresses. Then DKNY grew into an entire lifestyle concept, including tailored clothes you wear to work.

Donna Karan

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I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.

Davy Crockett

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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

Dean Kamen

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My whole life has been a lie.

Bobby Darin

LifeLieWholeBeen

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

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