James Russell Lowell Quotes
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
-
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
-
X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.
-
The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
-
With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
-
I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
-
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
-
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
-
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
-
Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
-
I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
-
I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.
-
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
-
They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
-
I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
-
The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
-
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
-
I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.
-
In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.
-
Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
-
Certain winds will make men's temper bad.
-
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
