James Russell Lowell Quotes

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell

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• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • World
  • Today
  • Earth

• I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Society
  • Law
  • Back

• We live too long for one marriage.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Long
  • Live
  • Marriage

• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • American
  • Day

• The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Light
  • Perfect
  • Desert

• It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • God
  • City
  • Garden

• How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Security
  • Grow
  • Debt

• In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Good
  • America
  • Age

• The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Know
  • Understand
  • Impossible

• I've never really fit in anywhere.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Never
  • Fit
  • Anywhere

• I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Believe
  • School

• I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Living

• The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Fear
  • Running
  • Silence

• I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say - yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

  

  Karen Gillan

• America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • President
  • Monroe
  • Monroe Doctrine

• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Love
  • Feel
  • For Her

• It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • May
  • Depression

• I think big-that's what my mother taught me. If you think small and accomplish it, what does it mean? Who cares? To me the sky's the limit, and I'm going to try and get there.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Mother
  • Small
  • Sky

• The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Inspiration
  • Artists
  • Female

• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

  

  James Russell Lowell