Ellen Glasgow Quotes

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Ellen Glasgow

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• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • May
  • Day

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Leadership
  • Ever
  • Replace

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Answer
  • Take
  • Fighter

• Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Baseball

• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Passion

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Good
  • Think
  • Here

• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy

• Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on 'Two and Half Men' with whom I have worked and over the past ten years who have become an extension of my family.

  

  Angus T. Jones
  • People
  • Men
  • Family

• From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

  

  George Berkeley
  • God
  • Mind

• Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Time
  • Desire
  • Look

• No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

  

  Ellen Glasgow
  • Desire