Carolyn Wells Quotes

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

Carolyn Wells

• Giving
• Blessed
• Christmas

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Humor

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

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

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Challenge

• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• 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

• I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Myself
  • Mentoring

• One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Principles
  • Personal

• I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Born

• In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Ideas
  • Say
  • Project

• Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Truth
  • Become
  • Pet

• The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Friends
  • Small
  • Interesting

• I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Mind
  • Why

• Advanced Courses are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent … There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Time
  • College

• She said, 'Spell 'ant' ', and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, 'That doesn't spell 'ant' ', and I said, 'It's in there somewhere! There's the A, there's the N, there's the T – the rest are silent!'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • She
  • Rest

• Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Dance
  • Gossip
  • Hamlet

• ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

  

  James Comey
  • People

• I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.

  

  Mark Frost
  • People
  • Remember

• The Amman Agreement failed because there was American pressure, and Israeli pressure, on Jordan to deal alone.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • American
  • Alone

• Being a tomboy worked to my advantage in fashion. I'm known as the androgynous girl - I've used it in a way that works for me. I've never felt a pressure to change myself. I do own a few Rick Owens dresses - they're more like long tank tops, though.

  

  Freja Beha Erichsen
  • Long
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.

  

  James Redfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• 'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Giving
  • Blessed
  • Christmas