George Pierce Baker Quotes
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
George Pierce Baker
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
Salman Rushdie
Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
Frances Beinecke
I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
Gaby Hoffmann
If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
Karen Mills
What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.
Tasha Smith
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth
My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz
If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
Larry David
I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
Taya Kyle
I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Rafael Nadal
'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
Barbara Cooney
The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.
Lubna Olayan
But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
Philip Guston
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
Saint Augustine
And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go
Downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown, don't wait a minute more
Downtown, everything's waiting for you
Petula Clark
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
George Pierce Baker
