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William Howard Taft Quotes

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

William Howard Taft

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930

Topics

I Am Tired People President Talk

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Work Marriage Best Two Always

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Character Words Action You Looks

'Drag Race' has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like 'black-ish' works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America.

Challenge Expectations Black America

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

Human Inspiration Everything Up Gets

Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.

Business Law Law Enforcement Battle

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

New York Control Gun Political Three

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

Turn Guns Us Bullets Ballots

I'm no Jerry Seinfeld. I wasn't raised with some backyard with a creek and trees and all that.

Trees Creek Backyard Some Raised

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

Wisdom Decision People Thoughts You

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

Angry People Me Stupid Questions

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

Christopher Eccleston

Decision Parents World Think Bring

I began my career performing in plays and musicals in New York, but by the mid-'80s, opportunities in Hollywood beckoned and I made the move to Los Angeles. It was a good decision. Work took off, but most important, I met my family out there - my husband, Bill, and the children we would adopt: Elijah, Mae-Mae, and Aron.

Christine Ebersole

Work Family Good Children Decision

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