Mabel Collins Quotes

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

Mabel Collins

• Life

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• A well-aimed spear is worth three.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Three
  • Worth
  • Spear

• I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Direction

• I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.

  

  Usher
  • Like
  • Something
  • Michael

• I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Up
  • Time
  • Age

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Color

• I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Medical
  • Ship
  • Physician

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Kind
  • Place
  • New

• The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• I've been on a tweeting mission.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Been
  • Mission
  • Tweeting

• I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Embarrassed
  • Apologetic

• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• The highest powers in our nature are our sense of moral excellence, the principple of reason and reflection, benevolence to our creatures and our love of the Divine Being.

  

  Edward Jenner
  • Nature
  • Moral
  • Reflection

• Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

  

  Lady Gaga

• When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • Good
  • School

• That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

  

  Mabel Collins
  • Life