Carolyn Wells Quotes

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

Carolyn Wells

• Christian
• Grace
• Praise
• Hated
• Flattery
• Apologizing

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Church
  • New
  • Nothing

• What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Future
  • Party
  • Politics

• Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hate
  • Brother
  • Speech

• Without a song, each day would be a century.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Day
  • Without

• The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Country
  • Air

• It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Experience

• The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Party

• I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Fun
  • Control

• Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • Beautiful
  • Simple
  • Stupid

• People are what this election is all about.

  

  Patty Berg
  • People

• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Emotional

• For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, 'Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.'

  

  David Pogue
  • Business

• I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

  

  Jon Brion

• If I had to guess right now, it would be tough for John to make it back for Monday night, ... We'll be working full speed tonight to try to get all that done.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Work
  • Done
  • Night

• I've never watched Trainspotting. I just know it's a very critically acclaimed film. In fact, I've never watched any of Danny's movies [means before he met him]. I just worked with him and felt the energy of what he is about initially before I do something. In a way, I think that's why we have discovered each other rather than replicate something else.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Energy

• Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Father
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.

  

  Rip Taylor
  • Should
  • Thank
  • Carrot

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• I never wanted to be on an exclusively Christian label.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Christian

• I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Christian
  • Known

• I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Christian
  • Grace
  • Praise