Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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• My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • People
  • Parents
  • Team

• I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Color

• Dancing has always been a passion of mine.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Mine

• The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Attention
  • Best
  • Face

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• You can never get enough of what you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Want
  • You
  • Never

• Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Time
  • Period
  • Sun

• Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Spiritual
  • Only
  • Zeal

• I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Live
  • Freedom
  • Bread

• Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Jazz

• The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Very
  • Countryside

• Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Money
  • Business
  • Author

• Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Great
  • Small
  • Hate

• The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sea
  • Greek

• Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Space
  • Hand

• In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Shining
  • Smooth

• I feel, that I'm only going to get better.

  

  Jake Arrieta

• When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Time
  • Different
  • Remember

• Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee