Cousin Quotes - Page 19

• I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

  Jonathan Swift

  Book, Order, Advice

  Jonathan Swift (2015). “Gulliver's Travels”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Brother, Children, Believe

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for their university tuition or purchase massive fourth homes on private islands with helicopter landing pads. But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

  Miriam Toews

  Girl, Children, Home

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• Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Dog, Cat, Thinking

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• In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.

  Denis Leary

  Firefighter, Guy, Grew

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• It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.

  Steven Gerrard

  Knowing, Lost, Difficult

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are, and were perhaps bolder. This world is their tomb. You should look under the bed.

  N.D. Wilson

  Men, Bed, Sound

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• The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Laughter, Stress, Book

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• Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fate, Technology, Chess

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.

  Monique Truong

  Twins, Language, Sometimes

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• Some primal termite knocked on wood.
  And tasted it, and found it good.
  And that is why your Cousin May
  Fell through the parlor floor today.

  Ogden Nash

  Science, May, Woods

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Gay

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• If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space.

  Percival Lowell

  Men, Numbers, Space

  Percival Lowell (2006). “Mars (Large Print)”, p.154, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Horse, Son, Dark

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.28, 谷月社

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• I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Brother, Eight, Two

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• Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.

  Adi Shankara

  Brother, Self, Energy

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• Certain guys are like relief pitchers; they come off the bench, they don’t know when they’re playing – you come in and you just go. Certain guys, they like to start; they like to start the game and play. I believe Kirk Cousins is a reliever. I don’t know if he’s a starter.

  Marshall Faulk

  Believe, Games, Play

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• My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

  Gabriel Macht

  Couple, Years, Together

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

  Mal Peet

  Believe, Kissing, Past

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• All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Sibling, Grief

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• I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

  Roger Zelazny

  Thinking, Beast, Enjoy

  "The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber".

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• Kirk Cousins has played much better at the quarterback position than Robert Griffin III has.

  Joe Theismann

  Quarterback, Position, Kirk

  "Joe Theismann: Kirk Cousins has outplayed RGIII" By Dan Steinberg, www.washingtonpost.com. August 23, 2014.

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• Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

  Daryl Hall

  Circles, Wife, France

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• If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins.

  David Taras

  Leader, World, Twins

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• There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, May, Lasts

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.83, BookCaps Study Guides

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