H. L. Mencken Quotes

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

H. L. Mencken

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

Topics

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'The A-Team' compared to making 'Narc' was a breeze. There's a whole other skill set and whole other kind of bone structure that goes into making a movie like 'Narc' versus 'The A-Team.'

Joe Carnahan

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I've never been paid as a prognosticator. I don't get a lot of work as a mentalist.

Andy Kindler

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As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

Solomon Burke

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While I was designing my home, I was living in different houses all around the world, and I saw thermostats that were just as bad as the ones in the U.S., or houses that needed them but didn't have them. I realised that this was a worldwide problem. I thought, 'Let's fix it.'

Tony Fadell

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I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.

Tom Hardy

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The young women waking up to feminism now already wake up to more consciousness than my generation had. Even just simple things like equal pay - before you went, in my generation, and asked for a raise, you went through nausea and your palms sweating.

Robin Morgan

WomenSimpleWake UpGenerationYou

Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

Jason Kander

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Yorkshire weather can turn quickly. At one Auld Lang Syne race, it dropped to -16C. The frost turned everybody's hair grey. I couldn't take my shoes off, as my laces had frozen solid.

Jonathan Brownlee

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Old men need applause too.

Don Everly

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I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

Drew Barrymore

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I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.

Chris Cornell

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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Christopher Reeve

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