Carolyn Wells Quotes

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Carolyn Wells

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• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Skinny

• It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Challenge

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Day
  • Legal
  • Offensive

• All government, of course, is against liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Against

• Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Experience
  • You
  • Wanted

• Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Girl

• As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Children
  • Joy
  • Without

• You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Up
  • Always

• A fixed mindset, creates a tendency to avoid challenges, to ignore useful negative feedback and leads such people to plateau early and not achieve their full potential.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Ignore
  • Mindset

• If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Night
  • Wise
  • Silence

• Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Angry

• So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

  

  Chris Bell Big Star
  • People
  • Age

• I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Up
  • Chocolate
  • Smoking

• I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Great
  • Friendships

• We don't understand the equity market well, and so we deploy funds in fixed-income securities, and like any other securities, investment in those securities also need to follow the mark-to-market accounting principle.

  

  Chanda Kochhar

• I'm against having a Fed. It's socialism in its worst form. But until the Fed is gotten rid of, the only economic variable the poor have to counteract the injustices of the Fed is the minimum wage law.

  

  Max Keiser
  • Law

• Tim Allen is a valuable part of the Disney ABC family and has been for a very, very long time.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• We try to live by the secret of sevens. A friend, who has been married for over 40 years, told us about this magic. Make and keep a date every seven days, take a night away alone, for yourself, every seven weeks, and schedule an adult-only vacation every seven months.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Live
  • Night
  • Alone

• Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Giving
  • Advice
  • Blessed