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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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 -
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.
Elizabeth Lesser -
There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.
James Fox -
I was a young girl the first time I learned about the concept of paying it forward.
Lynn Schusterman -
Eating smart is all about having an awareness of your body. The most obvious way to do that is by seeing it. So when you're trying to lose weight, spend more time wearing less. I don't think I could eat a plate of nachos naked - could you?
Marisa Miller -
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Ellen Glasgow