Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.


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DAVID BAILEY
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and lov...
PEARL BAILEY
It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, th...
LAURA BAILEY
I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from J...
LAURA BAILEY
It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much...
LAURA BAILEY
It really was a timing issue. We wanted to get the thing out there because we saw that they were sta...
ALAN BAILEY
The key here is probably, and that's where we're hoping the judge will rule in our favor, alteration...
ALAN BAILEY
There will be no planting for safety's sake, but we will accommodate (supervisors) regarding the ste...
ALAN BAILEY
The day he did, we got beat a nose by Sportsman and protested unsuccessfully. Those are the breaks i...
ALAN BAILEY
What a win. He got stopped in his tracks at the furlong and looked no hope.
ALAN BAILEY
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference...
GAMALIEL BAILEY
There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne Cou...
GAMALIEL BAILEY
George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to...
BAILEY CHASE
'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of ...
BAILEY CHASE
I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, ...
BAILEY CHASE
I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I...
BAILEY CHASE
'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger complim...
BAILEY CHASE
'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of ...
BAILEY CHASE
I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye ...
BAILEY CHASE
It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and...
BAILEY CHASE
I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group wi...
BAILEY CHASE
Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
BAILEY CHASE
You never find yourself until you face the truth
PEARL BAILEY
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.

Which ever side you think i...
JONATHAN BAILEY
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
PEARL BAILEY
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
PEARL BAILEY
People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.
PEARL BAILEY
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We shou...
DAVID BAILEY
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they...
BERNARD BAILEY
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have t...
PEARL BAILEY
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter b...
DAVID BAILEY
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat...
PEARL BAILEY
All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time.
DAVID BAILEY
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
PEARL BAILEY
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
PEARL BAILEY
There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour ...
PEARL BAILEY
You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.
PEARL BAILEY
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
JOSIAH BAILEY
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I lik...
DAVID BAILEY
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichev...
PEARL BAILEY
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
PEARL BAILEY
Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no lo...
PEARL BAILEY
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
PEARL BAILEY
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.
PEARL BAILEY
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I li...
DAVID BAILEY
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
GAMALIEL BAILEY
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and lov...
PEARL BAILEY