Edith Hamilton Quotes
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.Edith Hamilton
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi -
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt -
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
Gail Simmons -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
Rachel Bilson
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
Yann Tiersen -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
Rahul Gandhi -
Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
Parker Posey -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
Vera Wang
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden -
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga -
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly -
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
Orson F. Whitney
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Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
Bryant H. McGill -
I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen to use what you've worked on that day, it has taught you something and you'll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.
Eoin Colfer -
I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.
Kay Bailey Hutchison -
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
John Clayton -
Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here.
Bessie Head -
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
Edith Hamilton