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
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Nature

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• 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
  • People
  • Want
  • Sick

• 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
  • Long
  • School
  • Art

• Our career had a sort of funny shape.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Career
  • Funny
  • Shape

• Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Why
  • Stupid
  • Him

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• 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
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Strong

• 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
  • People
  • Food
  • Roses

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Kind
  • Generation
  • Connected

• 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
  • Life
  • Food

• 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
  • True
  • Universe
  • Acceptance

• 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
  • Real
  • Why
  • Simplicity

• Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Friends
  • True
  • Abuse

• Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasiesBut most of us just dream about the things we'd like to beSadder still to watch it die, then never to have known itFor you, the blind who once could seeThe bell tolls for thee... - Losing It (1982)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • World
  • Live
  • Dream

• We can only be right with and by the Party, for history has provided no other way of being in the right... And if the Party adopts a decision which one or other of us thinks unjust, he will say, just or unjust, it is my party, and I shall support the consequences of the decision to the end.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • History
  • Support
  • Party

• I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.

  

  Du Yun
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• There are times when you got to put a little 'extra' in, especially on a card at WrestleMania or SummerSlam because it's no time to hold anything back. You have to pull out all of the stops.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Time

• Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Remember
  • Powerful
  • Connections

• The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.

  

  Fritz Zwicky
  • Perfect
  • Universe
  • Design

• I don't feel that I was often compartmentalized as an African-American actor, yet I am fully aware of the plight that actors, directors and producers of color face in our industry. I choose to focus on being proactive in creating opportunities for myself and others while acknowledging that we are not playing on a level playing field.

  

  Kim Fields
  • American
  • Focus
  • Color

• 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