Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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• I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Think

• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Real

• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Myself

• I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • Good
  • Future

• If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • You
  • Aim

• Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Sociology

• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Things
  • Enemy

• As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

  

  Valerie June
  • High
  • Try
  • Guitar

• I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Time
  • American
  • Meaning

• I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• I hate that stupid old pickup truckYou never let me drive.You're a redneck heartbreakWho's really bad at lying.So watch me strike a matchOn all my wasted time.As far as I'm concerned you'reJust another picture to burn.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Hate

• Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Glory

• If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Bad
  • Dad
  • Day

• The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Group
  • Month

• I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Remember
  • Two
  • Wells

• Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Time
  • Artists
  • Treasure