James Russell Lowell Quotes

Of my meritOn thet pint you yourself may jedge;All is, I never drink no sperit,Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

May

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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

Barry Hannah
- World
- Writing
- Why
The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

Jackie Earle Haley
- Time
- Great
- Fun
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke
- Government
- Human
- Act
Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Important
- Real
- Know
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

Adam Ferrara
- Good
- Think
- Just Because
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

Sam Yagan
- Life
- Time
- Live