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Orson F. Whitney Quotes

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

Orson F. Whitney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1855 - May 16, 1931

Topics

Mother History Poetry Sister Elder

Every now and again, you just gotta hit something. Not someone - something.

Jillian Michaels

Someone You Now Something Just Hit

The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted.

Place Individual Act Zero Actions

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.

Jeremy Clarkson

Black Problem Television Boy Must

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

Language Someone You Play Ground

A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.

Me Moon You Want Run Fade

I'm not into being all 'film-y' and going to the premieres and parties. I tend to feel like the embarrassing uncle at a wedding.

Feel Wedding Uncle Being Going Like

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style.

Style Blind Guitar End Someone You

And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

Good You Bad Say Toronto Going

Everyone who worked on 'The Fox and the Hound' is important. We're all lucky to be in a business that we love.

Love Business Important Fox Lucky

When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.

Love Simple Saying Say Way Mean

When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

Jonathan LaPaglia

School Pressure You Choose Group

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

Story Picture You Be True Know True

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