Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

Ethel Watts Mumford

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• The ox suffers, the cart complains.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffers
  • Complains
  • Cart

• Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Why
  • Want
  • Day

• The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Better
  • Human
  • Need

• I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • You
  • Need
  • Worst

• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Big

• The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Challenge
  • Lunch
  • Climb

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Anything
  • Paper
  • Expensive

• The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.

  

  Ramakrishna

• There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Men
  • Night
  • Fear

• Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Great
  • Important
  • Science

• Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

  

  Bob Marley
  • Up

• El árbol está solo, la nube está sola. Todo está solo cuando yo estoy solo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Technology

• It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • Deep
  • Daughter

• I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Good
  • Explore

• The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • God
  • Order
  • Custom

• Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense.

  

  Alejandro Perez
  • Patience
  • Ice
  • Veins

• No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.

  

  Jean Paul
  • God
  • Heart
  • Nature

• The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Age
  • Me
  • Attention

• When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Heart
  • Grow
  • Fonder