Eugene Field Quotes

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

Eugene Field

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• This won't stop her from getting elected," Shane said. "Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy." "I would like to think better of us," Claire said, "but yeah. You're right.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Character
  • Small
  • Daily

• I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • Mind

• Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Know
  • Audience
  • Asking

• I spoke to Geoff Johns a lot. We went back and forth, and found a way to bring up the best qualities in his personality and psychology and also fill a niche in Gotham that we've never seen. It became about is there a way to really plant this hero in Gotham and say this is someone you haven't seen before - both in terms of who they are as a person and who they are as a hero.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Quality
  • Personality
  • Hero

• Of course there have been some isolated incidents of violence masterminded by the opposition camp

  

  Benjamin Mkapa
  • Opposition
  • Incidents

• “I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary”

  

  Hugh Lofting
  • Life
  • Baggage
  • Fuss

• Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.

  

  Carmen Reinhart
  • Time
  • Different
  • Factor

• There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

  

  Robert Zoellick
  • Taken
  • Prosperity
  • Inaction

• I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

  

  Blake Judd
  • Hide
  • Happy Person

• I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'

  

  Anita O'Day
  • Cat
  • Guitar
  • Wail

• I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying “Howdy cousin,” to everybody who walked by.

  

  Gary Reilly
  • Land
  • Fakes
  • Frauds

• Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.

  

  Ed Bliss
  • Excellence
  • Perfection
  • Mediocrity

• The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.

  

  Hal Rothman
  • Las Vegas
  • American Culture
  • Prominence

• If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Alone
  • Bath
  • Fleas

• Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.

  

  Eduardo C. Corral
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Burning

• What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Burning
  • Cigar
  • Smells