Douglas Southall Freeman Quotes

Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Done
  • Religion
  • Revolution

• I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Rock
  • Piano
  • Rock And Roll

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Power
  • Beautiful

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • College

• None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • May
  • Happen
  • Flexibility

• Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Brain

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Me
  • Involved
  • Says

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Again
  • Public Domain

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.

  

  Donella Meadows

• To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly. For God, whosoever he be (if haply there be any other but the world itself), and in what part soever resident, all sense He is, all sight, all hearing: He is the whole of the life and of the soul, all of Himself.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Chance

• I want to win medals for myself.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Win

• We are flattered to witness the response generated by the beta program and are working towards accommodating all pending sign up requests as soon as we launch live.

  

  Bhavin Turakhia
  • Working
  • Witness
  • Launch

• Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

  

  Douglas Southall Freeman
  • Time
  • Alone