Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Well
  • Ease
  • Rapping

• The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Waiting
  • Writer
  • Newcomers

• I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Capable

• I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Small
  • Rest

• Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Wrong
  • Very
  • Rare

• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Nature
  • Friend

• I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Man
  • Boss
  • Treat

• Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Thought

• I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • You
  • Woman
  • Design

• Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence

• We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves - outside of Germany.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg

• πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα

  

  Archilochus

• I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Dream
  • Singing

• I was raised mostly by my mom.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Mom

• Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Children
  • Home
  • Judging

• I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Time
  • Happy

• I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

• Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they're the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It's really not good business. It's nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L. Brooks Patterson. An arena in the middle of a field is not an ideal thing.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Business
  • Building

• I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Stage

• Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Friends