Edith Wharton Quotes

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Edith Wharton

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• I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Dream
  • Inspired
  • Architecture

• God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Action

• Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Way
  • Books
  • Likes

• I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Always
  • Literature
  • New

• Winning is everything in Hollywood.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Winning
  • Hollywood

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • You
  • Moment
  • Gift

• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Know
  • Universe
  • Design

• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Ability
  • Over
  • Disability

• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Company
  • Year
  • Retail

• Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Time
  • Star
  • Matter

• No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Equal
  • Close

• I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• When you're not being heard - I can't tell you what to do when you're not being heard. I do think there is a way to move in love and get things done, though.

  

  Algee Smith
  • Done

• Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Man
  • Need
  • Kill

• I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Different
  • Environment
  • Successful

• I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Interesting