Carolyn Wells Quotes

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

Carolyn Wells

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• Eye
• Library
• Makers
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• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• Everything is real on me.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Real
  • Me
  • Everything

• There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Mother
  • Dad
  • Brother

• Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Go

• I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Beginning
  • Vision
  • Movies

• It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Action
  • Human
  • Find

• I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Think
  • Nobody
  • Budget

• I believe in content, and I go accordingly.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Content

• Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Life
  • Parent

• Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Never
  • Old
  • Judges

• I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Art
  • Always

• This image of four spectra is taken from one of Huggins's publications. ...You can see that the Comet Winnecke resembles olive oil more than it does Comet Brorsen.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Taken

• Halloween is so close I can practically taste the children's tears.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Children
  • Tears
  • Halloween

• No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Mind
  • Wonder
  • Baseball

• Then proudly smiled that old man To see the eager lad Rush madly for his pen and ink And for his blotting-pad – But, when he thought of publishing, His face grew stern and sad.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Sad

• Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Sister

• I love every type of candy. I love Skittles and Reeses. I love it all.

  

  Colton Haynes
  • Candy

• If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't.

  

  Max Martin

• Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Thinking
  • Forever
  • Insane

• We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Character
  • War
  • Comedy

• Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Feeling
  • Faith
  • Poverty

• ... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Wish
  • Eye
  • Library