Joel Chandler Harris Quotes

Brer Fox, he lay low.

Joel Chandler Harris

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• I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Writing
  • Mystery
  • Half

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Hippie

• As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Singing
  • Better
  • Miserable

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Up
  • Television
  • Old

• Many are called but few get up.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Up
  • Motivational
  • Few

• The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Sports

• America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Country
  • America
  • Revolution

• Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dreams
  • Paris
  • Everyone

• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Ambition

• Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Storm

• We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

  

  Major Owens
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • End

• I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Picture

• I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Hate
  • Try

• In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Success
  • Value

• I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about being honest on stage, and I'm at my most honest when I'm behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • Communication
  • Makeup

• I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

  

  Betty White
  • World
  • Mother
  • Interesting

• Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

  

  Rumi
  • Myself
  • Boat
  • Stay

• Love is something like the notion that, despite its suffering, Being is good and you should serve Being.

  

  Jordan Peterson
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • Being

• Brer Fox, he lay low.

  

  Joel Chandler Harris