Eudora Welty Quotes

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

Eudora Welty

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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Always
  • Destiny

• I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Truth

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Music
  • Think

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Art
  • New
  • New York

• You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Eyes
  • Trees
  • Herbs

• I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Man
  • First

• Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Truth

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Taken
  • Dying

• It's a waste to not say anything with art.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Say
  • Waste

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.

  

  James Denton
  • Women
  • Real
  • City

• You determine how far you go in life, nobody else.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Life
  • Determine

• I enjoy seeing new places.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • Seeing

• I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

  

  Tyrese Gibson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Military

• All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Experience
  • Enrichment
  • Impoverishment