Carolyn Wells Quotes
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Everything is real on me.
-
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.
-
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
-
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
-
I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
-
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
-
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.
-
I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
-
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.
-
I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
-
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?
-
Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
-
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.
-
Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
-
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
-
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.
-
Halloween is so close I can practically taste the children's tears.
-
On my first day on the set of 'Boston Legal,' I thought the director was calling me 'Candice' instead of 'Constance.' But I didn't realize he was actually talking to Candice Bergen.
-
I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we've had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.
-
Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
-
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
-
I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when I won the first architectural competition of my career.
-
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
