Carolyn Wells Quotes

I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!

Carolyn Wells

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• It's those damn critics again.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Again
  • Damn

• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Like

• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Jews
  • Were

• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Good
  • Silly
  • Dumb

• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

  Lara Stone
  • Nice
  • Color
  • Lips

• I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Character
  • Unusual
  • Inventing

• Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Play
  • Lawyer
  • Doctor

• All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Free
  • Technology
  • Options

• I love British bands.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Love
  • Bands
  • British

• Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.

  

  Jeff Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Political
  • Worry

• I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Happy
  • Party
  • Birthday

• The law does not allow the FTC to just snap its fingers and temporarily block a merger.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh
  • Law

• I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space.

  

  Liza Lapira
  • Good
  • Why
  • Space

• I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

  

  Cissy Houston
  • Time
  • She
  • Proud

• If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Ways

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Good
  • House
  • Singing

• I don't know if I feel a responsibility to encourage women, I just do! Yes, I think all of us chicks should be inspired and create! In whatever way that inspiration comes, we should shine! Honestly, I feel the same way about men.

  

  Angela Bettis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Believe
  • Spring
  • Sublime