1850s In America Quotes & Sayings

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other. — Jean-Luc Godard

Anyone I touch, I send back to the land from which he came. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable. — Ernest Hemingway,

You know what they say, marry in haste, repent at leisure. Look — Petra Durst-Benning

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working. — Noel Gallagher

I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu. — Tyler Perry

The 1850s proved to be the decade of the most prolific patent litigation in America's history. Lincoln himself was involved, as well as his most three prolific cabinet members: Chase, Seward and Stanton. — Darin Gibby

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts. — Jenn Proske

The most evident distinguishing sign is man's organization of his life according primarily to mythic, and only secondarily economic, aims and laws. Food and drink, reproduction and nest-building, it is true, play formidable roles in the lives no less of men than of chimpanzees. But what of the economics of the Pyramids, the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, Hindus starving to death with edible cattle strolling all around them, or the history of Israel, from the time of Saul to right now? — Joseph Campbell

It begins by the wives being bored to death because their men are so tired from making money they don't pay any attention to 'em. But when their wives start hollering, instead of trying to understand why, the men just go find a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. Then when they get tired of talking about themselves they go back to their wives. Everything's rosy for a while, but the men get tired and their wives start yellin' again and around it goes. Men in this age have turned the Other Woman into a psychiatrist's couch, and at far less expense, too. — Harper Lee