Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Phyllis McGinley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I am pretty controlled I have to say.

Jennifer Aniston

I AmSayPrettyControlledAm

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

John Denver

I CanMailGetAwfulFanRead

When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn't hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn't get back up.

Jeff Hardy

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I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.

Meta Golding

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They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.

Steve Earle

TruthDeathTruth IsYouDoneKind

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

Milla Jovovich

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I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

Jarvis Cocker

PoliticalSometimesWriteAlways

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

Jon Anderson

LifeOptimismThinkYouChoiceGo

I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.

Cote de Pablo

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American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

Arlen Specter

FriendWarStrongStandAmerican

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Anthony Shadid

ArtYouJournalismAlwaysIncomplete

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.

Prince

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