Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

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• I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Organization
  • Fans
  • Loved

• Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Political
  • Worry
  • Tools

• My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Feeling
  • Day
  • Color

• Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Stealing
  • Few

• You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

  

  Jack Black
  • Power
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Being
  • I Love
  • Photographed

• Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Time
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• Most people don't know how to tell stories.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Know
  • Most

• The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Moving
  • Wit
  • Moving On

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Life
  • Best
  • Explore

• Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• I think I'm a million different faces.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Different
  • Think
  • Million

• Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

  

  Dan Rather
  • American
  • Law
  • Constitution

• The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Up
  • Politics
  • End

• The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • People
  • Great
  • Model

• Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Fire

• I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Good
  • America
  • Childhood

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Weird
  • Problems
  • Born

• And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hate
  • Lover
  • Pleasures

• Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Born
  • Prodigies