Owen Wister Quotes

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Morning

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Why
  • Eye

• Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Important
  • Touch

• When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • You

• It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Matter

• The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • World
  • Ocean
  • Fish

• I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Knowledge
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Country
  • Real
  • Money

• As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Me
  • Confidence

• One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Being
  • Become
  • Only

• I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Where
  • University
  • Professor

• Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Powerful

• He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Way
  • Gorgeous

• I love to smile.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Love
  • Smile
  • I Love

• Everything about 'UY' is new and fresh, and we are extremely happy at the response from the audiences, as most people are walking out of cinema halls with a smile on their faces.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • People
  • Happy
  • Walking

• I don't think I was a good model. I think I was born to emote and act. I would walk down the ramp and smile and they used to say, 'Give us a blank look.' It was really difficult not to smile.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Good
  • Model
  • Smile

• When you call me that, smile!

  

  Owen Wister
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