Ellen Glasgow Quotes

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Ellen Glasgow

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• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Government

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Work
  • Like
  • Singer

• I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Health
  • Vegetarian

• There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Freedom
  • Habit
  • Forgiveness

• I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Successful
  • I Can

• Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Taken
  • Trust
  • Democracy

• The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Voice
  • Doing

• Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Die
  • New York
  • Reputation

• The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Fire
  • Admire

• At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Red

• Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • May
  • Gentle
  • Magnificent

• The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Future

• Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Women
  • Respect

• Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Brain
  • Training

• I love working with Sally Field, and Steve Buscemi is one of the most giving, talented actors I've ever worked with.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Giving

• Torture works, okay folks? ... Believe me, it works. ... Waterboarding is your minor form. Some people say it's not actually torture. Let's assume it is. But they asked me the question. What do you think of waterboarding? Absolutely fine. But we should go much stronger than waterboarding. That's the way I feel.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Believe
  • Question

• Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Life
  • Choose
  • Short

• Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Art

• Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • Great
  • Study
  • Broken

• To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

  

  Ellen Glasgow