Ellen Glasgow Quotes
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.Ellen Glasgow
Quotes to Explore
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger -
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
Carl Safina -
When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.
Indra Nooyi -
I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
Camilo Villegas -
When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
Karen Salmansohn
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My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.
Ozzie Smith -
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
Barry Humphries -
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. Abrams -
You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
Queen Latifah -
I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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The space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man's insistent determination to do the nearly impossible - to explore the unknown, even at great risk.
Harold Urey -
I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
Fefe Dobson -
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Patrick White -
There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
Warwick Davis -
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
Famke Janssen
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I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.
Daniel Kahneman -
I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.
John McAfee -
And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
Plato -
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X -
You've got very powerful, very intelligent and very imaginative people on both sides.
Felix Rohatyn -
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Ellen Glasgow