Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Mary Augusta Ward

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• 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.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Great
  • Night
  • 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• 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.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Law
  • Community
  • Policy

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Grow

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• 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!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Income

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Think
  • Striving

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Pretty
  • Childhood
  • Revenge

• 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.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Always
  • Down

• But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Bother

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fiction
  • Duty
  • Painful

• 'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Great
  • Ideas
  • Homeland

• 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.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.

  

  Jonah Lomu
  • Time

• I wouldn't change anything about myself. Not because I'm being cocky or anything, but because this is who I am, and I'm proud of who I am.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Proud
  • Cocky

• To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Mistake
  • Failing
  • Watches

• Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Training
  • Win
  • Again

• I got great voice training in St. Mary’s Church, Wavertree, in Liverpool, when I was a lad. Dressing up in cassocks was all part of the fun. I used to earn sixpence a week and although I don’t go to church very much any more, 'Once In Royal David’s City' is still my favourite hymn.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Up
  • Great
  • Fun

• As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

  

  Mary Augusta Ward
  • Training