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Bayard Taylor Quotes

As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.

Bayard Taylor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 11, 1825 - December 19, 1878

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Me Impossible Human Heat Difficult

The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.

John Lanchester

Good Business Bad Out Because Least

Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.

John Podhoretz

Listening You Bad Country Three Why

There is voter fraud. I know there is voter fraud.

Steve Bannon

Know Fraud Voter Voter Fraud

I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City.

Robin Lord Taylor

Live New York City Small New Hang

Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.

Rory Freedman

Truth Time You Little Easier Each

In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.

Romesh Gunesekera

Live Time Past Writing Loss You

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

Michelle Alexander

Control Cooperation System Almost

The main fear about growing old as an actor is not losing the looks. I never had any to speak of, and what I had I've still got, but losing the memory is another matter.

Miriam Margolyes

Fear Losing Memory Speak Growing Old

You have to be enough of a parent - you have to be there. If I'm feeling bad, I really do just have to get on with it and try and channel it back into my work somehow, do something positive with it.

Julia Davis

Positive Work Parent Enough You Bad

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

Josh McDowell

Father Hatred Once Lot Had Toward

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Doris Day

Age Youth Without Middle Decay

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

Brett Ratner

Patience Business Age Day You Need