Mabel Osgood Wright Quotes

It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

Mabel Osgood Wright

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• As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Fun
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Never
  • Nervous

• Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Reading

• The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Why
  • Me
  • Myself

• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Years
  • Problems
  • Over

• I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Literature

• I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Power
  • Control
  • Morning

• The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • You
  • Knowing
  • Turning Point

• Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • World
  • War
  • Running

• I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Think
  • Want
  • Details

• I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Control

• Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Famous
  • End

• I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven, they do end up together somehow.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Up
  • Together
  • Girl

• I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Work
  • Done
  • Me

• 'Sharp it away, lad, sharp it away,' the burly guardsman said, making the blade skitter across the whetstone, 'lest otherways ye’ll be a girl afore ye’re a man.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Girl

• I do not pretend to sustain the order. At the time of its publication I was insensed by a reprimand recieved from Washington for permitting acts which the Jews, within my lines, were engaged in.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time

• The aim of linguistics is to go beyond the study of individual languages to determine what the universal properties of language are, and to establish a ‘universal grammar’ that would account for the range of linguistic variation that is humanly possible.

  

  David Crystal
  • Study

• If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Force
  • Majority
  • Minority

• Claire said. “I might be able to get him to stop.” “Who, crazy dude? Maybe. Or he might pull your head off,” Shane said. “I kind of worry.” She couldn’t help but smile. “Yeah?” “A little bit.” “That’s …nice.” He studied her, and returned the smile. “Yeah,” he said. “Kind of is, actually.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Help
  • Stop
  • Crazy

• It's been good to go against guys like that and play well. But I still have a long way to go. Those are two of the best doing it right now. When you add Yao Ming and Jermaine O'Neal into the mix, those are the best centers in the league right now, so they are the guys you really want to play well against.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Play
  • Guys
  • League

• It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

  

  Mabel Osgood Wright