Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

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• Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Different
  • You
  • Always

• We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

  

  Donal Logue
  • Movie

• I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Up

• I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.

  

  Ariel Dorfman
  • God
  • Believe

• I have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Way
  • Piano
  • Concerto

• "Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Minute
  • Navigation
  • Carry On

• When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on 'common things.' It is rude and foolish and shows that you really know nothing about them, either as a class or as individuals.

  

  Eliza Leslie
  • Individual
  • Common
  • Surprise

• D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

  

  Caspar David Friedrich
  • Nature
  • Alone
  • Feel

• When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

  

  Heidi India Range
  • Person
  • Journey

• If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Hope

• One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

  

  Bobby Sherman
  • Real
  • Parents
  • Birthday

• These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

  

  Rebecca Wells
  • Only
  • Wide
  • Lighthouse

• Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be very angry, very depressed, and I had to pull all of these emotions out of myself. And it wasn't easy.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Happy
  • Angry
  • Mood

• Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Australia
  • Reaching
  • Practicals

• Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Work
  • Achieve
  • Albums

• What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Pioneer
  • Lighthouse
  • Chart