E. Digby Baltzell Quotes

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

E. Digby Baltzell

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• I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Why
  • Night

• We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Memories

• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Good
  • Done
  • Reality

• Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rise

• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Work
  • English
  • Learn

• Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Love

• There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Woman
  • Poetry
  • Destiny

• I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Moment
  • Mountain
  • Mountains

• Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Work
  • Career
  • Hurt

• If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Wish
  • Empower

• I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Job
  • Because
  • Actress

• The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Me
  • Devil
  • Beast

• I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Dream
  • Community
  • Office

• I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Freedom
  • Hate
  • Wonder

• The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done

• The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up

• The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Music
  • Children
  • Wife

• People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie.

  

  Colin Firth
  • People
  • Up
  • Words

• Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort! / Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!

  

  Charles Reade
  • Friend
  • Courage
  • Devil

• My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.

  

  Christian de Duve
  • Up
  • Time
  • Country

• A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

  

  E. Digby Baltzell