James Russell Lowell Quotes

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dad

• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Gay
  • Sad
  • Down

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Politics

• When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Tears

• There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Songs

• I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Done
  • Single
  • Journey

• When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Together
  • Relationship

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Marriage
  • Equal

• Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Most

• I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • History
  • Political
  • Dark

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Different
  • Country
  • True

• There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Night

• I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Think
  • Me
  • Line

• Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • World
  • Democracy

• Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • World
  • Music
  • Religious

• I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That's kind of a good equation.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Problem
  • Congress
  • Cases

• Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Unknown
  • Solution
  • Capacity

• Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Religious
  • Democracy