Arthur Cleveland Bent Quotes

The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.

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• I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Film
  • Born

• More modern poetry is written than read.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • More
  • Modern

• And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Government
  • Design
  • End

• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Clothes
  • Closet
  • Velvet

• I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Just

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • She
  • Age
  • Best

• The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Decisions
  • Reverse

• I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Man

• You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Teenager

• Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Deep

• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Children
  • Why
  • Still

• The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Food
  • Brother
  • Childhood

• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Words

• Your body has space within you that cannot die.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Die
  • Space
  • Body

• My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • World
  • Money
  • Mother

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Son

• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Pleasure
  • Image
  • Silent

• I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.

  

  Arthur Cleveland Bent
  • Name
  • Coat
  • Bluebird