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

• I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • People
  • School
  • High

• 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

• Action, you see, is the end that thought achieves. Action is its only purpose. What else is it good for? If we don't act, it's worthless.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Good
  • Action
  • Purpose

• Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

  

  John Milton
  • Arms
  • Imparadis`d

• When you go into the whole realm of creating your own music and seeing the project through, it's increasingly difficult because nowadays a lot of people are making music all on their own - the individual instead of the band. And when you have such a solid vision and you spend so much time working on one idea and allowing it to manifest in your mind through a record, and then you have to go and find people to help you see it through live, it gets really overwhelming, to have to project and really clearly state what you're trying to do and how you want them to do it.

  

  Ahmed Gallab
  • Music
  • Vision
  • Record

• It's not that you can do this calculated move to try to further your career. You just follow what's in your heart, and later you look back and go, 'I was either really dumb or really smart, I can't believe I did that.'

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Career

• When you heart is ablaze with the love of God, when you love other people - especially the ripsnorting sinners - so much that you dare to tell them about Jesus with no apologies, then never fear, there will be results.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fear

• Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Heart
  • Grow
  • Fonder