Hamlin Garland Quotes

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

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• I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.

  

  Sam Smith
  • You
  • Hate
  • See

• We shred every day.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Every

• The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Long
  • May
  • Age

• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Nice

• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Want
  • Beauty
  • Theatre

• I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Friends
  • Child
  • Fight

• I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Appreciate

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• L.A. makes you feel ugly.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Feel
  • Ugly

• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Race
  • Nation
  • Class

• Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Me

• I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Fake

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Best

• I never sing in the shower either.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Never
  • Sing
  • Shower

• And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Nurse

• I do like structure, and I'd love to be better at it.

  

  Jeff Buckley

• I'm not one of those people that goes into the movies that are based off of books going, 'I know what this is really about.' I want to go and have a good time.

  

  Megan Hilty
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Business
  • Success

• Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions.

  

  Lisa See
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Poetry

• There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

  

  Hamlin Garland
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