William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

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• I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Support

• As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

  

  Randall Park
  • Comedy
  • See
  • Stereotypes

• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Envy
  • Lived
  • Hotel

• A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Job
  • Inspiration

• Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Travel
  • Son

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • Work
  • Done
  • Pretty

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Ball
  • Middle
  • Chances

• Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Life
  • May
  • Death

• I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Down

• Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nature
  • Education

• I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Know
  • Me
  • Image

• You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • World
  • Parents
  • Best

• I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Say
  • Citizens
  • Been

• I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

  

  William Dean Howells
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