Ellen Glasgow Quotes

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Ellen Glasgow

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• In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Success

• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reading

• I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Los Angeles

• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Theatre

• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Young
  • Opportunities

• I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

  

  Victor Cherbuliez
  • Habit
  • Luck
  • Opportunities

• I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Always

• I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Change
  • Government
  • Care

• The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  

  Olof Palme
  • People
  • Society
  • Democracy

• My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Style
  • Human
  • Diplomacy

• Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Good
  • Me
  • Attitude

• Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Use
  • Wishes
  • Wanting

• I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Action
  • Government
  • Down

• The government's job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Job
  • Government

• Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Power
  • Serious

• By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today!

  

  Max Cleland
  • Today
  • Guy
  • House

• When I walk on stage, it's a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Stressful

• It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • Focus
  • Painful

• Jack was embarrassed - never hero more,And as he knew not what to say, he swore.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Hero

• No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

  

  Ellen Glasgow