Washington Irving Quotes

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Washington Irving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

Joe Rogan

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I watch Renee Fleming a lot. I listen to Renee Fleming a lot. She was like my built-in master class.

Jessie Mueller

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I used to get two racquets a year. As you can imagine, they didn't last me too long.

John McEnroe

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When I was 20 years old, if you had a $100 bill and a good idea and a strong work ethic, you could start a company.

Matt Rosendale

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I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.

Michael Gove

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I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

John Singleton

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I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing recedes into the background, and hope that it's still there.

Stephen Karam

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'Faucet Failure' was my favorite because I just had fun with it, and it was just 10 minutes, and I didn't overthink anything, and I wanted to just have fun with the song.

Ski Mask the Slump God

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When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort. Competition is the death knell for anything, in my opinion. Especially in Hollywood. When actors are competing against each other, or when directors are competing against actors, it's usually the beginning of the end.

Rocky Carroll

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For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

Michael Showalter

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I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

Missy Elliott

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Oh, I'm just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I'm not saying I never will. But it's like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird?

Diane Lane

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