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DENNIS WHARTON

This is only a piece of the solution, and represents a transparent attempt by both cable operators a...
DENNIS WHARTON

At the convention we've got almost 113,000 people from all walks of communication. The industry now ...
DENNIS WHARTON

We can't remain stagnant. Look what happened to television, the Internet. Everything changes.
DENNIS WHARTON

We believe satellite radio companies were licensed for national radio programming services exclusive...
DENNIS WHARTON

Most TV and radio stations view the Internet as an opportunity to enhance their service to listeners...
DENNIS WHARTON

We've said we would accept a hard date and get spectrum back to public safety.
DENNIS WHARTON

Surveys we have seen suggest parents are using them.
DENNIS WHARTON

Most people would recognize that broadcast programming is far less explicit in terms of sex and viol...
DENNIS WHARTON

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
EDITH WHARTON

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
EDITH WHARTON

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
EDITH WHARTON

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
EDITH WHARTON

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
EDITH WHARTON

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
EDITH WHARTON

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
EDITH WHARTON

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ...
EDITH WHARTON

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in...
EDITH WHARTON

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise...
EDITH WHARTON

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br...
EDITH WHARTON

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
EDITH WHARTON

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
EDITH WHARTON

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
EDITH WHARTON

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
EDITH WHARTON

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
EDITH WHARTON

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
EDITH WHARTON

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho...
EDITH WHARTON

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
EDITH WHARTON

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
EDITH WHARTON

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle...
EDITH WHARTON

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
EDITH WHARTON

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c...
EDITH WHARTON

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove...
EDITH WHARTON

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
EDITH WHARTON

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh...
EDITH WHARTON

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio...
EDITH WHARTON

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
EDITH WHARTON

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
EDITH WHARTON

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON

Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON

There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON

It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
EDITH WHARTON

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definition...
EDITH WHARTON

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that i...
EDITH WHARTON

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a par...
EDITH WHARTON

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be in...
EDITH WHARTON

Everything about her was both vigorous and exquisite.
EDITH WHARTON

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet
EDITH WHARTON

At this point it's simply a suspect case, so we're just taking the extra precautions to make sure no...
BILL WHARTON

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
EDITH WHARTON

The risk of anyone else being positive for it is very low.
BILL WHARTON

The board has told Mr. Boyd that they much appreciate all of his services. Unfortunately, his positi...
BILL WHARTON

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in it...
EDITH WHARTON

Each time you happen to me all over again.
EDITH WHARTON

He also has very good stroke mechanics, and much like Molly doesn't like to lose. They have it in th...
DAVE WHARTON

...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of ...
EDITH WHARTON

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech
EDITH WHARTON

It seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be i...
EDITH WHARTON

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON

Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was read...
EDITH WHARTON

The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was in...
EDITH WHARTON

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look fo...
EDITH WHARTON

But marriage is a one long sacrifice.
EDITH WHARTON

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods
EDITH WHARTON

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises abo...
EDITH WHARTON

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness h...
EDITH WHARTON

I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conv...
EDITH WHARTON

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or do...
EDITH WHARTON

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce th...
EDITH WHARTON

Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unpre...
EDITH WHARTON

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
EDITH WHARTON

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, da...
EDITH WHARTON

His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, ...
EDITH WHARTON

My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON

Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what wou...
EDITH WHARTON

Проблема с принятыми сгоряча решениями в том, что на др...
EDITH WHARTON

The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have ...
EDITH WHARTON

This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she...
EDITH WHARTON

All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered ...
EDITH WHARTON

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
EDITH WHARTON

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with h...
EDITH WHARTON

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it intere...
EDITH WHARTON

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual ...
EDITH WHARTON

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON

Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one...
EDITH WHARTON

The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can e...
EDITH WHARTON

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Ameri...
EDITH WHARTON

refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing
EDITH WHARTON

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was b...
EDITH WHARTON

She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indiff...
EDITH WHARTON

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON

We're going into a tough part of our season. We've got five tough games coming up, starting with Cri...
BRUCE WHARTON

If we play that hard, with that intensity, we can be in most games. Even if we had lost this game, I...
BRUCE WHARTON

I think we kind of let up defensively. The first quarter we played full man-to-man. The guys maybe g...
BRUCE WHARTON

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comfor...
EDITH WHARTON

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DAVE WHARTON

She's very talented. She can work hard and she loves to race. She loves the relays and loves being p...
DAVE WHARTON

Molly had a great day and really stood out.
DAVE WHARTON

I don't believe in shutting down practices just to win meets. Some people live and breath by dual me...
DAVE WHARTON

She's just an all-around swimmer. We try to utilize her wherever we have any weak points in the meet...
DAVE WHARTON

...they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is n...
EDITH WHARTON

The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden fu...
EDITH WHARTON

She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the tas...
EDITH WHARTON

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your
old self rejects you, and...
EDITH WHARTON

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.
EDITH WHARTON

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the ...
EDITH WHARTON

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.
EDITH WHARTON

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assu...
EDITH WHARTON

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
EDITH WHARTON

She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She u...
EDITH WHARTON

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than ...
EDITH WHARTON

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
EDITH WHARTON

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their...
WILLIAM H. WHARTON

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to t...
WILLIAM H. WHARTON

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the govern...
WILLIAM H. WHARTON

Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know...
FELIX DENNIS

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like....
DENNIS PRAGER

What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. ...
DENNIS QUAID

I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or any...
DENNIS WILSON

Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got g...
DENNIS WILSON

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
DENNIS ECKERSLEY

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
DENNIS PRAGER

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. ...
DENNIS HASTERT

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
DENNIS RODMAN

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a camera...
DENNIS MUREN

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
DENNIS RODMAN

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
DENNIS POTTER

I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit b...
DENNIS QUAID

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burn...
FELIX DENNIS

I always want to find the best burger in town.
DENNIS QUAID

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society...
FELIX DENNIS

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
FELIX DENNIS

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I&#...
FELIX DENNIS

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
FELIX DENNIS

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
FELIX DENNIS

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
FELIX DENNIS

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you ...
FELIX DENNIS

I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wra...
FELIX DENNIS

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind th...
FELIX DENNIS

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
FELIX DENNIS

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
FELIX DENNIS

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
FELIX DENNIS

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic,...
FELIX DENNIS

Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how c...
FELIX DENNIS

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them...
FELIX DENNIS

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive...
FELIX DENNIS

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
FELIX DENNIS

You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care...
FELIX DENNIS

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on m...
DENNIS QUAID

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or Joh...
DENNIS FARINA

Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leav...
DENNIS MILLER

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
DENNIS QUAID

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
DENNIS WEAVER

It was an awesome place to play and I made a lot of friends here.
ADAM DENNIS

A few times I wanted to leave my net to move the puck up but I wasn't sure where it was coming from,...
ADAM DENNIS

You can't really change anything game to game so you just try to go in relaxed.
ADAM DENNIS

No, my superstition might be not having any. Come playoff time, you like to get into routines, but t...
ADAM DENNIS

From the start of the year, 40 wins was a goal of mine and it just happened that 41 was the league r...
ADAM DENNIS

That wasn't a friendly thing. He shot the puck down the ice at me so I fired it back.
ADAM DENNIS

I didn't play very well. He's a good goalie and deserved a chance to play. I just feel like I let th...
ADAM DENNIS

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your ...
DENNIS RAINEY

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second...
DENNIS MILLER

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
DENNIS MILLER

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
DENNIS GREEN

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a ...
DENNIS WHOLEY

There's something ugly about the flawless.
DENNIS LEHANE

See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.
DENNIS SHARPE

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in ...
DENNIS FRAKES

Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
PATRICK DENNIS

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
DENNIS RODMAN

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
JOHN DENNIS

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mex...
DENNIS HOPPER

There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and fin...
EVERETTE DENNIS

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to ...
DENNIS FRANZ

Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftis...
DENNIS ALTMAN

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over t...
DENNIS CONNER

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society w...
DENNIS PRAGER

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the ...
DENNIS PRAGER

We think of broadcast TV as a lifeline in a time of emergency. A lot of the people broadcast TV serves are poor people who don't get cable or can't afford it.

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We think of broadcast TV as a lifeline in a time of emergency. A lot of the people broadcast TV serves are poor people who don't get cable or can't afford it.

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