Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes

When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.

Celia Thaxter

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• Pleasure
• Healing
• Snow
• Window
• Plans

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• I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

  

  Wale
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Pride

• Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Real
  • Children
  • School

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • America
  • Control

• I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Equality
  • Priority

• Our true nationality is mankind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • True
  • Mankind
  • Our

• When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Think
  • Government
  • Just

• It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Matter
  • Working Hard

• The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Career
  • Me
  • Stop

• This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • World
  • Real
  • Done

• When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Parents

• Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.

  

  Marie Windsor

• The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • Learning
  • Mom

• To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Perfect
  • Value
  • Gold

• I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.

  

  Jake Johnson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Bad

• Very early on in the process of trying to sell 'The Summer Prince,' I was told, 'Slavery seems to be very important to this society - is that on purpose?' Well, duh.

  

  Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Society

• But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Pain
  • Healing
  • Loneliness

• On airlines, so many passengers' faces are buried in John Grisham books, they could be complimentary copies for Grisham Airlines.

  

  Kate Clinton

• [The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

  

  William Gibson
  • Information
  • Used
  • Consumers

• It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • High
  • Action
  • Victory

• When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Summer
  • Pleasure
  • Healing