Jane Harrison Quotes

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

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• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Texas

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Courage
  • Rules
  • Limits

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Dancing
  • Satisfied
  • Stuck

• To film in water is three times harder than just on land.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Water
  • Land
  • Three

• I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Popular
  • Master
  • Cringe

• When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Dying

• The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Me
  • Said
  • More

• I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Never
  • Information
  • Talk

• When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • Up
  • Meet

• That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Night

• Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Men
  • Smart

• China has established friendship with many African countries, and is opening itself up to Africa and providing assistance. It is cooperating with African countries on an equal basis and has no desire to colonize Africa.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Friendship

• Indoors or out, no one relaxesIn March, that month of wind and taxes,The wind will presently disappear,The taxes last us all the year.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Wind
  • March

• It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Sure
  • Dull

• As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Artist

• You know, my Dear, I never meddle in matters of Death; I always leave those Affairs to you. Women indeed are bitter bad Judges in these cases, for they are so partial to the Brave that they think every Man handsome who is going to the Camp or the Gallows.

  

  John Gay
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Death

• In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Space
  • Walk
  • Irony

• Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'

  

  Jean Craighead George
  • Writing
  • Home

• To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

  

  Jane Harrison
  • Brave