James Anthony Froude Quotes

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

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• In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Home
  • Fall
  • Son

• The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Life
  • Korea
  • North Korea

• I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Long
  • High

• For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Important
  • Thought
  • Differences

• I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Mother
  • Breakfast
  • Useless

• When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Read
  • Paper

• I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Young
  • Will
  • Anything

• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Way
  • Focus

• The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Character
  • Career

• How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Know

• I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Real
  • Success
  • Man

• The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Conversation
  • Remembered

• I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• Kante is a good player. For me, it is good because he speaks French. We know he is a fantastic player; he runs a lot and works for the team.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Team
  • Player
  • Works

• I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Knowledge
  • Progress
  • Dangerous

• I am disappointed to have to end my season, but my knee has been bothering me for the better part of the year. My ultimate goal is to play in the major championships next year and to qualify for the 2006 Ryder Cup, and by having surgery now I can strive to meet this goal. I look forward to the 2006 season.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Goal
  • Season
  • Disappointed

• The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Inspiration
  • Groups
  • Teenagers

• Activism has always been the driving force for change.

  

  David Swanson
  • Change
  • Always
  • Activism

• Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.

  

  Israel Broussard
  • Problem
  • Generation
  • Phone

• A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Season
  • Seed
  • Calumnies