George Combe Quotes

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.

George Combe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 21, 1788 - August 14, 1858

Topics

MindMeWorldRestFriendsMy Own

As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the draft that was sending American teenagers to Vietnam, there was always the possibility of a Soviet nuclear attack. I made constant escape plans and imagined a life going from port to port.

Andrew Solomon

LifeWorldAmericanLateEscapeKid

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

Melissa McCarthy

EnoughFunctionLikeSleeper

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois

LoveDatingLiteratureOthersChosen

It's actually one of the hardest things for trans people, is to go to the bathroom.

Amy Landecker

PeopleGoBathroomThingsHardest

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Stendhal

WorkPoliticsImpossibleGunIgnore

I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.

Sondra Radvanovsky

LiveSpaceForestYouNeedOpera

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Simone Weil

LifeMenSpiritualValuePeople

From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Robert Baden-Powell

LifeImaginationSmartDressView

People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch two seasons back-to-back of a show. They are invested in the person within that arc or the dynamics of those people - the relationships - and it doesn't matter to them if they're watching it on an iPhone or a cinema screen.

Robin Wright

PeopleWeekendSeasonsCinemaPerson

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

Clint Eastwood

GreatRiverMeInterestingRight

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Arthur Miller

GoodTalkingNewspaperNationItself

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

Peter O'Toole

MeLearnSitLinesReliefFront

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