E. Y. Harburg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.
Cara Castronuova
-
Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice
-
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving
-
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei
-
I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
Dambisa Moyo
-
I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
Floyd Abrams
-
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
Barbara Mikulski
-
I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
Rafael Palmeiro
-
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi
-
When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
Caitriona Balfe
-
Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
-
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
Lady Gregory
-
Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.
Birch Bayh
-
Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Francis Bacon
-
If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you live alone, there's a lot more leeway for your fantasy life to be more and more a part of your everyday life.
Claire Messud
-
My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.
Paul Auster
-
The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.
T. C. Boyle
-
There ought to be a law against necessity.
E. Y. Harburg
