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Harriet Van Horne Quotes

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.

Harriet Van Horne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 17, 1920 - January 15, 1998

Topics

Possibilities House Television More

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

Jenny McCarthy

Family Funny Fun Mom Think Laugh

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

Andrew Stanton

Think You Artist Look Back Go

My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

John Paul DeJoria

Morning Job School Brother Cards

In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.

John le Carre

Day Man People Building Nostalgia

I am proud that everybody is knowing me on the streets and airplanes and airports.

Angelique Kerber

I Am Me Proud Knowing Streets Am

A big way that I express myself is through what I wear and how I present myself. I think that's an important part of the characters that I play.

Angourie Rice

Myself Think Present Play Important

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

John Romero

Business People Creating Games Being

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

Sia

Artist Now Knowing Successful Making

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.

Robin Williams

Great Men Young Knew Matt Damon

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

Ron Reagan

Father War Feet Stand Never Need

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.

Mary Landrieu

Hope Freedom Democracy Chance True

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

Michelle Shocked

Dance School Fools Grandmother Never