Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
-
To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
-
Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
-
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
-
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
-
One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
-
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
-
When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
-
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
-
Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
-
I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
-
As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
-
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
-
But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.
-
I have a couture body.
-
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
-
'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.
-
I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
-
By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.
-
My big dream has always been to write and create my own things.
-
We need education across the board on all fronts.
-
The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation.
-
This Martina Navratilova is a real champion, but with the proper training, I can make miracles happen.
-
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
