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Lincoln Steffens Quotes

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

Lincoln Steffens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 6, 1866 - August 9, 1936

Topics

Mother Me Dignity No Sense She Head

I'm pretty drifty.

Melissa McBride

Pretty

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Robert Benton

Love Age Getting Older Colors Reach

My voice has many dynamics in it. Like my little body.

Rita Moreno

Voice Body Little Like Many

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

Mira Nair

Family People Wedding Open Liberal

The reason I'm an American is for all the people in this country and recognizing that if business is thriving and growing, it will create more jobs, raise wages of our people, allow us to care for our seniors, get a better education for our kids, and allow us to have the kind of military that can defend American interests around the world.

Mitt Romney

Education Business People World Care

I do think, oddly, that a comedic actor has a better chance of pulling off a dramatic role than a great dramatic actor has of being able to pull off a highly comedic role.

Lizzy Caplan

Great Chance Think Better Actor Off

There are things that aren't supposed to be comfortable to read, because those situations shouldn't be comfortable to discuss, but they still need to be discussed.

Jay Asher

Comfortable Need Things Because Read

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

Jon Stewart

Time Say Awards They Say Charm Host

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

Donovan

Write Searching Always Different

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

David Ulevitch

Birthday Mother Cake Office Still

I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.

Anthony Browne

Father Home Age Heart Brother Team

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

Ashley Scott

Learning Training Cool Done Never