Charles Frohman Quotes

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

Charles Frohman

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• It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Job
  • Think
  • Stop

• I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Looking

• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Challenges

• My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Own

• I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • First
  • Old
  • Boston

• It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Waiting

• It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

  

  Dan Simmons

• Quoyle with regards to Petal, his wife, 'There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering...In another time, in another sex, she would have been Genghis Khan.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Time
  • She
  • Wife

• Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • God

• Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I wasn't a great student, but I was interested in this theater thing, and I could spend hours in the library researching why the cuffs in the 18th century had four buttons. It was my handle.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Great
  • Why
  • Library

• I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

  

  Joan Chen

• Ted Cruz caught the momentum in Wisconsin that I think that Donald Trump thought was his and his alone.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Alone
  • Trump

• I had a huge Lisa Frank sticker collection. I traded them.

  

  Jenny Lewis

• How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Abuse

• I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

  

  Brynn Cartelli

• I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.

  

  Chuck D
  • People
  • Hate

• I remember my first 'Sports Illustrated' shoot was with the photographer Walter Iooss, and Julie Campbell was the editor, and we were at the president of Mexico's private house in Cancun - this was before anything else that's now in Cancun even existed. And they told me to get a tan, so I spent all morning in the sun, and I was burnt.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Remember
  • House
  • Morning

• Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.

  

  George Whyte-Melville
  • Future
  • Think
  • Existence

• Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Power

• I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Loved
  • Girlfriend
  • Swing

• An efficient payments system provides the infrastructure needed to transfer money in low-cost and convenient ways. Efficient systems are innovative in improving the quality of services in response to changing technology and changing demand.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Money
  • Technology
  • Quality

• This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

  

  Charles Frohman