Anna Cora Mowatt Quotes

Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Reporter
  • Marketers

• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Curiosity

• Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Small

• I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Hollywood

• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Wife
  • Road
  • Stupid

• Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • War
  • World War II

• I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Men
  • Never
  • Mad

• Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Done
  • Power
  • Politics

• I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Waiting
  • Lunch
  • Coat

• I'm always weeping at something or other.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Always
  • Something
  • Other

• I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Find

• I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Me
  • Running

• For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Architecture

• You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Success

• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Afternoon

• Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Women
  • Opinion
  • Romantic

• Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.

  

  Anna Cora Mowatt
  • Women
  • Enjoy
  • Suffer