Anna Cora Mowatt Quotes

Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

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• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Brothers
  • Favorites

• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Service

• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Risk

• I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Always
  • Childhood

• Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Chance
  • Wise
  • Luck

• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wish
  • Nothing
  • Remarkable

• When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Star
  • Thought
  • First

• I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

  

  Ice T
  • Rapper
  • Front

• If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Rock

• For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • High
  • Age
  • New

• Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Money
  • Me

• You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Grow

• I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.

  

  Randall Park
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Favorite

• If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • War
  • Humanity

• Well, I always believe that when you fail, you get up and try again and again. It's whether that what we have been doing is worthwhile or not

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • Believe

• Buddha didn’t teach that life hurts because of pain; it hurts because the cause of suffering hasn’t been examined.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • Truth
  • True

• Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Different
  • Power

• Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Man
  • Center
  • Freud

• It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Nature
  • Universe

• Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

  

  Anna Cora Mowatt
  • Thoughts
  • Butterflies
  • Flit