Carolyn Wells Quotes

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

Carolyn Wells

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• Devil
• Interference
• Busybodies

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• Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Me
  • Cooking
  • Patience

• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • People
  • Government
  • Innocent

• I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • Professional
  • Actress

• I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wish

• It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Well
  • Against

• Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • Brain

• In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

  

  Lisa Randall
  • Time
  • History

• Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up
  • Heart
  • May

• This is a terrible place to die in.Where’s a good one?

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Good
  • Die

• It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Words

• I will never, never ever sing on stage, but when I'm in the studio, I do sing melody lines. When I'm working with singer-songwriters, and I hear melodies, I can guide them. I will be like, 'Oh no, do this this this.' But you will never hear my voice on a Martin Garrix track.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21

• I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
  • Long
  • Motorcycle

• DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Gold

• I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

  

  Jodie Foster

• I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.

  

  Jim Moran
  • People
  • American

• I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Done
  • Home
  • Comedy

• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Money

• I married my best friend, and I couldn't ask for anything more. He's an unbelievable person.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Friend

• I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.

  

  Umar
  • Calm
  • Feet
  • Tyrants

• You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.

  

  Sara Rue
  • Body

• I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.

  

  Cam
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Society

• I love hitting aces. It's not easy, but it makes your life a lot easier.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Easy
  • Easier
  • Hitting

• Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Advice
  • Devil
  • Interference