Carolyn Wells Quotes

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Carolyn Wells

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• I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• All the terrorists are basically migrants.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Terrorists
  • Basically

• Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Today
  • Service
  • Insurance

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Himself

• If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • You
  • Weird

• If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Walking
  • Sorry
  • Thank You

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Like

• Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Me
  • Model
  • Successful

• I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • End
  • Start

• I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Just

• Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Live
  • History
  • Architecture

• When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • Future
  • Eyes
  • Chicago

• Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

  Antony Sher
  • Book
  • Struggle
  • Painting

• Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics

• All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Up
  • Power
  • Political

• Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.

  

  Penelope Mitchell
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.

  

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy
  • Government
  • Companies
  • Privileges

• I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Hope
  • Mistake

• The perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world is shaped, in many ways, by CNN. Continuing to have an adversarial relationship with that network is a mistake.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Mistake

• I always try to find something or some way of delivering the lines or playing the scene that you wouldn't normally expect. And I know that sounds weird, because it's not like I surprise people with shocking performances. But in an interesting way... Just being real and as interesting as possible. Usually, that stuff is the spine of the show. It's the humor that you need in a scene, in an intense moment or something.

  

  Gregory Phillip Grunberg Band from TV
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Moments
  • Mistake