Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) Quotes
I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.Nellie Bly
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
Young Jeezy -
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
Malik Bendjelloul -
You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
Tahj Mowry -
At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Our career had a sort of funny shape.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
Owen Hart -
A new era of responsibility is here.
Valerie Jarrett -
I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
Garrison Keillor -
I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.
Fionnula Flanagan -
Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
Carl Honore -
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
Nate Silver
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
Adam Driver -
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
Eberhard Weber -
A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport.
Tanith Lee -
If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.
Dan Simmons -
Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.
Jack McDevitt -
Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.
Ed Robertson -
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
Maya Angelou -
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
E. W. Howe -
Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.
Nellie Bly