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H. L. Mencken Quotes

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Faith Belief May Illogical Defined

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

You Crime Write Fiction Catch

I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

Care Plot About Really

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

Tired My Own Out Own Started Sell

I love a pocket. I'm about helping women look as good as possible on the least amount of effort. I want versatility and comfort. Clothes that can go from the office to anywhere. We're always trying on samples at work. If none of us would wear it, chances are no one else will.

Stella McCartney

Work Love Good Women Effort Look

I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill's.

Tree Crazy Saying Think Feel You

'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

Learning Good Business Men Man Look

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

Woman House Find Getting Married Her

My family didn't have time for me, so I decided to join the Suvorov military academy, which is in St. Petersburg. I spent two years there and studied general military science. At that point, once I graduated, I joined the Chernigov higher education pilot academy.

Roman Romanenko

Family Education Science Time Me

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Good Fear Good Teacher Teacher

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

Myself Me Sister Reading Doing She

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Work Myself New York People Loved

Of all the places I've been while talking to audiences about the U.S. Army's 5th Special Forces Group and their story in Afghanistan, one of the most rewarding was an appearance before the 5th Group soldiers themselves at Ft. Campbell, their home, and the place from which they had launched their historic mission in Afghanistan in 2001.

Home Story Talking Mission Place

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