Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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• We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • You
  • Alien

• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Myself

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Energy
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear

• I never met a stripe I didn't like.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Like
  • Never
  • Stripe

• Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Night
  • Beginning
  • End

• The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Most
  • Miserable
  • Hardest

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel

• I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Trust
  • End

• Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Yourself

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Take
  • Four
  • Nap

• If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?

  

  Adam McKay
  • Country
  • Why
  • House

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Learning
  • Worry
  • Picture

• Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • Rock
  • Deep

• A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Kids
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Horse

• I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean!

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Hair

• It was palpable, all that wanting: Mother wanting something more, Dad wanting something more, everyone wanting something more. This wasn't going to do for us fifties girls; we were going to have to change the equation even if it meant . . . abstaining from motherhood, because clearly that was where Mother got caught.

  

  Anne Fleming
  • More
  • Motherhood
  • Wanting

• Well it's bulls and blood,It's dust and mud,It's the roar of a Sunday crowd.It's the white in his knuckles,The gold in the buckle,He'll win the next go 'round.It's boots and chaps,It's cowboy hats,It's spurs and latigo.It's the ropes and the reins,And the joy and the pain,And they call the thing rodeo.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Gold

• In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Treasures

• Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Pain
  • Silence
  • Sorrow

• There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Pain
  • Train
  • Rooms