Ellen Glasgow Quotes

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

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• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  

  Ed Markey
  • You
  • Car
  • Wait

• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Artist
  • Process

• The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Wisdom
  • Gay

• Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Powerful

• You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Shine
  • Season

• Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Country
  • America
  • Future

• I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Important
  • Society
  • Joy

• I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Age
  • Army

• Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Problem

• The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Fear
  • Word
  • Educational

• Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Guitar

• Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • World
  • Ability
  • Take

• I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Family
  • Care

• Democracy will win - because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Real
  • Age

• P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Today
  • Singing

• Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Weird

• I was in Puerto Rico going to school, and it was very jarring for me. 'Traumatic' is the only way that I can say it. Kids were making fun of me: 'Oh, you're a Yankee.' And I acted out a lot. A lot. But looking back, and through a little bit of therapy, everything I am has to do with that time.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building's front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • May
  • House
  • Spiritual

• I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.

  

  Pippa Middleton
  • Career

• I love when I think we're taking territory - if it makes sense in the long term, we just don't give a damn what it looks like in the short term. After all, we're running a cult, not a normal company.

  

  Charlie Munger
  • Long
  • Running

• The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Movies
  • Reasons
  • Broadway

• It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

  

  Ellen Glasgow