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Washington Irving Quotes

A tart 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 feel like the world gets so consumed and gobbled up by action, and the pace of life is so frantic, and people feel like, in order to move somebody, you have to do something shocking or violent or something insane and fast.

Life People World Action Feel You

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Love Time Happy Doing Done Three

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Sparkle Literature Brilliant English

Through a voluntary national certification program, SAFLA will create uniform rules and definitions for foods carrying a GMO-free label, allowing consumers to understand and identify those products that fit their food preferences.

Food Rules Create Uniform Understand

I was torn between the Americanness my mom wanted for me and the Mexicanness my father wanted - they were wrestling for cultural influence over me.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Father Me Mom Influence Wrestling

So I have, like, more than a 100 cousins all over the world now.

World Now More Cousins Over Like

The first thing I do in the morning is have an espresso - straight up - and read the papers. I like 'The Independent,' 'The Times,' and the 'Financial Times.'

Jonathan Anderson

Morning Financial Independent First

People are proud to be from Baltimore. In any industry you work in, you need support to survive. And this city has that support for anyone who was born here or lived here. And it also gives you the feeling, 'Oh, I stand for this place. And if I do something I'm not proud of, I might not make my town proud.' And I want to make Baltimore proud.

Work Support People City Proud You

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Basketball Always Mental Four About

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Winston Churchill

Life Words Diet My Life Always Eat

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

Ideas Think Interesting America Just

I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.

Broken Face Think Facts You Out

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