Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes

The whole period seemed to come alive to her sensitive imagination,--the people of the times, substantial and courageous, walked and talked with her. For the first time she was sensing to-day a romance in her own Midwest, a glamour over the lives of her own people. She wished she could hold to her heart the fleeting sensation until she could get pencil and paper. She wished she could catch it and hold it between the covers of a book.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

• Imagination
• Romance
• Sensation
• Glamour
• Wished

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• The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

  

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• I like power and I like to use it.

  

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• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

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• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  

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• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

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• I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

  

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• I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.

  

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• As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.

  

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  • People
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• Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

  

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  • Music
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  • Truth
  • Listening
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  • School
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• The whole period seemed to come alive to her sensitive imagination,--the people of the times, substantial and courageous, walked and talked with her. For the first time she was sensing to-day a romance in her own Midwest, a glamour over the lives of her own people. She wished she could hold to her heart the fleeting sensation until she could get pencil and paper. She wished she could catch it and hold it between the covers of a book.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Imagination
  • Romance
  • Sensation