Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
Quotes to Explore
-
I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
-
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
-
We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
-
I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
-
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
-
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
-
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
-
Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
You just have to take control of your own performance.
-
One can not impede scientific progress.
-
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
-
I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
-
This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
-
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
-
Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
-
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
-
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
-
We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.
-
American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.
-
If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
-
The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.
-
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
