Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
-
Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
-
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
-
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
-
I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
-
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
-
Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
-
Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
-
The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
-
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
-
I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
-
The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
-
I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
-
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
-
The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
-
In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
-
Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
-
The good ideas will survive.
-
The good thing is that I'm always honest.
-
We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image.
-
I don't think most rock stars are particularly calculating. I don't think they sit there and think, 'I will do this; therefore, on Monday, I will sell another 200,000 records'.
-
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
-
If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.
-
All roads that lead to God are good.
