Frances E. Willard Quotes
Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.Frances E. Willard
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
Pat Brown -
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson -
There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
Bayard Taylor -
There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
Natalie Zea -
When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
Feist -
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch
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One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
Damien Chazelle -
Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
Rachel Griffiths -
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
Dan Aykroyd -
I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.
Ville Valo HIM
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She said, 'Spell 'ant' ', and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, 'That doesn't spell 'ant' ', and I said, 'It's in there somewhere! There's the A, there's the N, there's the T – the rest are silent!'
Eddie Izzard -
Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
Cardinal Richelieu -
Only two kind of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!
Amy Tan -
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
Eliezer Yudkowsky -
El dolor no nos sigue: camina adelante.
Antonio Porchia -
Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
Dan Quinn -
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
Damien Hirst -
I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
William Jennings Bryan -
The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.
Brian Tracy -
Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.
Frances E. Willard