Charles Comiskey Quotes

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

Charles Comiskey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 15, 1859 - October 26, 1931

Topics

LifeSmall ThingsSmallCountLeak

We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

John C. Calhoun

GreatMistakePeopleCapableMake

There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.

Johann Lamont

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I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

John Hickenlooper

GoodPeopleSmallThinkThinking

I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.

Michael Hastings

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Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

John Wooden

YourselfYouBe TrueTrueEveryone

'Longtime Companion' was really the first movie that I know of that addressed the problem of AIDS. This was back in the '80s that we did this.

Tony Shalhoub

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It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups.

Robert Zemeckis

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My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.

Matisyahu

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Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

Matt Besser

MomentMeListeningUnderstanding

I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.

Mike Posner

FunnySongThoughtYouMoreOut

Since the era of 'Sherlock Holmes,' private detectives had long been able to influence cases on their own. But the online detective, who had no sort of professional training or even long practice, is a purely modern phenomenon. The Internet changed everything by letting anyone become a self-appointed 'expert' on a case.

Michelle Dean

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I'm an invention of the Internet. I'm like, the Internet went away for a few years and designed what the perfect online personality would look like and came back with me.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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