Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square

Edgar Lee Masters

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• I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Man
  • Best
  • Doubt

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Little

• I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Work
  • House

• I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Body

• To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Job
  • Help
  • Talent

• There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

  

  Sam Richards
  • United States
  • Odd
  • United

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Small
  • Saying

• First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
  • Never
  • First

• I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Age
  • Angry
  • Old

• I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Dog

• My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Parents

• When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

  

  John Slattery

• In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Dog
  • Door
  • Spanish