Ellen Swallow Richards Quotes
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
Quotes to Explore
-
The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
-
I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
-
I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
-
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
-
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
-
I was a normal American nerd.
-
The writer is all alone.
-
For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
-
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
-
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
-
I buy when other people are selling.
-
Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
-
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
-
I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.
-
I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
-
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
-
Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.
-
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
-
Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.
-
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
