Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Phyllis McGinley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 21, 1905 - February 22, 1978

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Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.

John Boozman

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Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There are moments, of course, when you think that it's going from bad to worse, but there are other moments when you think that human efforts are really flowering into something really fantastic.

John Hurt

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A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

Angela Ahrendts

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To be human is to be visible.

Amy Sherald

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When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work.

Steve Prefontaine

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Paul Rudd's a really weird, silly, silly man. He gets on 'Friends,' and he gets to show, like, one tiny little window of how truly berserk he can be.

Robert Ben Garant

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The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world.

Roger Spottiswoode

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Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

Ritchie Blackmore

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Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.

Rivers Cuomo

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Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.

Rube Goldberg

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If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.

Michael P. Anderson

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