Carolyn Wells Quotes

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Carolyn Wells

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Qualities
  • Charismatic
  • Revered

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Air
  • Streets
  • Hot

• I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Living

• I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Want
  • Achieving

• Don't look back!

  

  Zane Grey

• Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Today

• Was glänzt, ist für den Augenblick geboren;das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Up
  • Night
  • Style

• Shania Twain and Martina McBride and all these wonderful women were saying that it's awesome to be a woman, and it's awesome to be a confident woman. Obviously, I could never compare myself to them, and I want to be my own thing, but I think that message is what I want to say as an artist.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Women
  • Awesome

• I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • American
  • Style

• There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Home

• I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Tired
  • Criticism

• And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Knowledge
  • Christmas
  • God Bless

• I sang for 'Mirror Mirror.' I love singing.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Singing
  • Mirror

• There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Question

• When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.

  

  Jean-Pascal Tricoire
  • Country
  • Business

• A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • World
  • Men
  • Mind