James Russell Lowell Quotes

The birch, most shy and lady-like of trees,Her poverty, as best she may, retrieves,And hints at her foregone gentilitiesWith some saved relics of her wealth of leaves.

James Russell Lowell

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• The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Scripture

• I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Always
  • Voice

• 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

• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • Long
  • Drug

• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Done
  • Age
  • Acting

• I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Bed
  • Obsession
  • Ship

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

  

  Mal Peet
  • You
  • Town
  • Ghosts

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Man
  • Living

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Talk

• Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

  

  Mahavira
  • Laws
  • Infinite
  • Modes

• I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Focus

• I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Women
  • Same

• I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Believe
  • Man

• I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Better
  • Kiss

• Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Game
  • Way
  • Baseball

• There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death-and she did feel a little admiration-but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.

  

  Iain Banks
  • She
  • Death
  • Stupid

• The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

  

  James Lipton
  • Rest

• I'm a big yachting fan.

  

  David Cunliffe

• The birch, most shy and lady-like of trees,Her poverty, as best she may, retrieves,And hints at her foregone gentilitiesWith some saved relics of her wealth of leaves.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • May
  • She
  • Poverty