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William Falconer Quotes

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

William Falconer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: scottish
Birth: 1732 - 1769

Topics

Wind Direction Sails Sailing Effect

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

People You Trouble Eat Take Cook

I agree with 81 percent of the people of Alabama who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.

Robert J. Bentley

Marriage Woman Man People Believe

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.

Children Best Parents Immigrants Who

Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.

Judge Rules Nobody Judges See Role

A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.

Good People Economists Kidney Lot

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Fall Princeton Instructor

Some days, I get overwhelmed and a bit breathless... I've probably cried at work, but I'm limited with my crying: I'm the boss; I'm not really allowed to cry at work.

Stella McCartney

Work Boss Cry Overwhelmed Days Get

The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since.

Me Career Out Point High Fifties

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

Best Road Trying Long You Anything

A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

Government People Control American

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.

Age Time Myself Me Doing Wrong

Protestants attacked Catholics during the 1844 Nativist riots in Philadelphia. Guess what that was about? Anti-immigrant sentiment. Back then, it was the influx of Irish Catholics into the city. Now, it's Donald Trump clinging to a bygone notion of Protestant ascendancy and nativist sentiments, when mainline Protestantism is on the wane in the U.S.

City Back Donald Trump Philadelphia

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