Jacob Epstein Quotes

As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

Jacob Epstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sculptor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 10, 1880 - August 19, 1959

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Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.

John Lewis

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Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Robert Metcalfe

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I am still a Catholic. I still believe life begins at conception. That is consistent with my Catholic beliefs. And I believe we must protect life. Whenever abortion comes up, we get questioned about the exceptions, but no one ever questions the extreme positions on the other side: late-term abortions, no on parental notification.

Michael Baumgartner

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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

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I like making people laugh. That's fun for me.

Alyssa Sutherland

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I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.

Trisha Yearwood

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I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Tom Lenk

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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show.

Lorne Michaels

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If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Loudon Wainwright III

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Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Joshua Foer

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When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

Jason Kidd

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