Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes

Abbie Deal went happily about her work, one baby in her arms and the other at her skirts, courage her lode-star and love her guide, – a song upon her lips and a lantern in her hand.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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• When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • You
  • Gone

• I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Family
  • Home
  • Him

• I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Kid

• I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Better
  • White
  • Jeans

• I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Great
  • Looking

• As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• The two motor driven 'mobiles' which I am exhibiting August, 1933 are from among the more successful of my earliest attempts at plastic objects in motion. The orbits are all circular arcs or circles. The supports have been painted to disappear against a white background to leave nothing but the moving elements..

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Moving
  • August

• ’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Thank
  • Statues
  • Dentists

• Virtue can only flourish among equals.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft

• I positively encourage time abroad to anybody. It's worth taking the time to suss out which countries in the world are well funded for your subject and look for opportunities there.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Time
  • World

• I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Time

• Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Serious

• I like a semi-stressful massage - one where I can really feel something being worked out.

  

  Emily Weiss

• I think it's important to have scaling challenge because there are players who I feel play 'Dragon Age' for the wonder, story and exploration but wouldn't enjoy getting their butts handed to them. We do still have easy mode - it's not a pure story mode in that there's zero combat, but it's not super-challenging.

  

  Marc Laidlaw
  • Important
  • Age
  • Challenge

• I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

  

  Alice Englert
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Children

• I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

  

  Jim Talent
  • Work
  • Marriage
  • Poverty

• I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

  

  Bertie Carvel
  • People
  • Work
  • Wish

• I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Movie

• Abbie Deal went happily about her work, one baby in her arms and the other at her skirts, courage her lode-star and love her guide, – a song upon her lips and a lantern in her hand.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Work
  • Song
  • Courage