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Washington Irving Quotes

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859

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Age Tongue Never Tool Sharp Temper

I knew every one of my father's lines in 'Glory' - I broke the VHS tape - but I hid my love of acting to make it as my own man.

John David Washington

Love Father Man Acting Glory My Own

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Treat Think Science Fiction

You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.

Someone You Lose Feeling Legs Get

Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

Time Week You Price Go Know

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Work Me Doing Not Knowing Knowing

The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.

Family Future Nation Large Families

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Life Happiness New York City Glasses

For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: 'free and fair competition.'

Childhood Competition Free Greed

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Home New York Me Game Famous Year

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

Life Struggle Better Feel No Sense

To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell.

Money You Buy Mutual Funds Sell

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

Good Start Worry Bad Target Balloon

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