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Alice Meynell Quotes

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: September 22, 1847 - November 27, 1922

Topics

Humor Laughter Sense Of Humor Act

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

Hope Government Seems Decent Only

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Problem Emotion Sentimentality

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

You Crisis Say Matters

I'm a romantic.

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

Broken Baseball Golf You Back Play

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

Yourself You Look Back Now Way

Being partly Italian or, rather, having an Italian last name, I've always dreamed of really becoming partly Italian, of eating piles of mouthwatering fettuccine in the piazza, speaking a language that demands music over mumble, and yes, if I'm honest, perhaps dressing a little better.

Michael Paterniti

Music Eating Name Language Better

I feel extremely guilty that I've had to put team-mates through extra media questions.

Lizzie Armitstead

Feel Questions Media Guilty Through

I've always had a hard time just being angry or just being really sad - the bigger emotions.

Sad Time Angry Emotions Hard Always

I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.

Good Moment Dress Speak Pressure

Give me something to do and you will make me happy.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Happy Me You Will Something Give Me

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fear Courage Back Build Hold Flood

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