James Russell Lowell Quotes

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

James Russell Lowell

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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Never
  • Consciousness

• The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Today
  • House
  • Night

• You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • Education
  • Problem

• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Artist
  • Entrepreneur

• As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Work
  • American
  • True

• My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Beautiful
  • Kid
  • Consciousness

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Faces

• Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Now

• American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • American
  • Today

• George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Strong
  • Summer
  • Feminist

• Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Winning
  • Olympics
  • Than

• I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Money
  • Think
  • Easy

• A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Support
  • Looks
  • Rise

• I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • Understand
  • Ship

• I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • New

• My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Writing
  • School
  • Job

• You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Learn
  • Lessons
  • Ancient

• If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • True
  • Deep
  • Bible

• I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  

  Edward M. Purcell
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Growing
  • Reading
  • Person

• My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

  

  James Russell Lowell