Owen Wister Quotes

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

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• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Broken
  • Nation
  • Divided

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Little

• We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Page

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Reading

• When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Talk
  • Solution
  • Migration

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Find
  • Place
  • Conquer

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Great
  • Career
  • Childhood

• Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Military

• The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Interesting
  • Star
  • Random

• Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quae non intellegunt.

  

  Quintilian

• Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Bitter

• Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

  

  Jared Sparks
  • Great
  • Men
  • Experience

• It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Spirit

• He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• I have played a few lay saints in my time.

  

  Pauline Collins
  • Time

• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

  

  Owen Wister
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Idea