Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

Sara Willis

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• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Like
  • Year
  • Leak

• I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Writing
  • Nature

• I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Great
  • Live
  • Thought

• The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World
  • Better
  • Place

• I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Famous
  • Piano
  • Rooms

• A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • World
  • Good
  • Trying

• The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Love
  • Law
  • Christian

• Tax increases aren't the answer. It would remove income from Americans' pockets, slow or stagnate job creation, and potentially lead to an overall economic downturn.

  

  Dan Burton
  • Job
  • Answer
  • Tax

• The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Weak
  • Treacherous
  • Tsar

• I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Accept

• Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• I'm interested in designing for posterity.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Posterity
  • Designing

• The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

  

  Lester Maddox
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Treat

• This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.

  

  April Parker Jones
  • Character
  • Freedom
  • Emotions

• I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Cheerful

• From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.

  

  William James
  • Art
  • House
  • Culture

• You recalled the 1956 declaration, and this declaration established the rules that should be followed by both sides and that should be put into the foundation of a peace treaty. If you carefully read the text of this document, you will see that the declaration will take effect after we sign a peace treaty and the two islands [Kunashir and Shikotan] are transferred to Japan. It does not say on what terms they should be transferred and what side will exercise sovereignty over them.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Exercise
  • Doe
  • Term

• I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is of course you can see how I play with the characters, the storylines, and the way things play off each other. And the minus is that it makes you a little bit more self-conscious, that you're not able to enter the movie as it exists and lives and breathes, because you're so busy making references, connections that you're not able to release yourself from and take the film on your own terms.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Character
  • Film
  • Breathe

• The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Term
  • Has Beens
  • Old-fashioned