Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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  • Hope
  • Reading

• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
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• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Art
  • Myself
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• I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Experience
  • Like
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• I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Black
  • Team
  • Best

• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Christian
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

  

  Quintilian
  • Words
  • Child
  • First

• For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Support
  • City
  • Honor

• I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • High
  • Intensity

• Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Imagination
  • Weird
  • WIld

• Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Death
  • Jesus

• I've got a one-dimensional mind.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Mind

• My first meal when I wake up is five boiled eggs, egg whites, and a slice of whole wheat bread.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up

• If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Long

• For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Life
  • Water

• Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Experience
  • Understanding

• I actually didn't grow up watching 'Degrassi,' but I saw the commercials and knew the characters. I didn't realize that Drake was the guy from 'Degrassi.' I had to piece it together and go, 'Oh! He's Aubrey Graham.'

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Up
  • Together
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• The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

  

  David Mamet

• If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families and have nothing to do with children.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you.

  

  Alex Zanardi
  • Speak
  • Worth
  • Retiring

• It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Cynicism