Anne Reeve Aldrich Quotes

I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

Anne Reeve Aldrich

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Synthesis
  • Biscuits

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Treat

• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Parents

• Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Sorry
  • Still
  • Dialectical

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

  

  Nas
  • World
  • Amazing
  • Achievement

• With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Day

• With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Human
  • Creativity
  • Heritage

• In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Art
  • Fire
  • Symbol

• If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • May
  • Small
  • Organization

• It's embarrassing to be in the only westernized economy that doesn't have paid family leave and flex scheduling, and that disproportionately helps women.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Women
  • Family

• It is not an opinion that 'enhanced interrogation techniques' are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • War
  • Opinion

• Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'

  

  James Thurber
  • Help
  • Style

• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  

  Anne Reeve Aldrich
  • War
  • Write
  • Inspire