James Russell Lowell Quotes
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
Quotes to Explore
-
Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
-
Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
-
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
-
In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
-
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
-
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-
I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
-
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
-
My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
-
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
-
Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
-
I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
-
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
-
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
-
I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
-
I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
-
The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
-
I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.
-
In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.
-
The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
-
Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.
-
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
-
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
