Walter Russell Bowie Quotes

The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.

Walter Russell Bowie

• Sweet
• Average
• Mediocrity
• Faithfulness
• Steadfast

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• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Start

• While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Up
  • Different
  • Growing

• There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Guy
  • Fighting
  • Green

• I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Politics

• 为什么外国互联网公司到中国大都失败了？谷歌也不行、雅虎也不行、eBay这些都被中国本土公司给搞死掉了？是不是中国不能做？任何一个失败的人是最容易找藉口的，人类总是为失败找藉口，不为成功找方向。

  

  Jack Ma

• The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Environment
  • Management
  • Marketing

• We do not accept or officially recognise Israel. They are occupiers and illegitimate. But our approach is humanitarian. I ask you where is the Soviet Union now - has it been wiped out or not? It vanished without a war. Let the Palestinian people chose. It will happen.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • War

• I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human. But, I'm man enough to face 'em today. What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb. But, the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of that gun. Because I'd have killed them. Shit, I'd have shot Kim and them both. It's my life, I'd like to welcome you all to 'The Eminem Show'.

  

  Eminem
  • Life
  • Today
  • Doubt

• No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.

  

  John Adams
  • Life
  • Men
  • Free

• In a Scottish opera, it ain't over 'till the fat lady bitch-slaps you.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• As a vulgar lounge entertainer, my business relies on ridiculous stereotypes! If these people start using deodorant, I might as well just go home!

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • People
  • Home
  • Business

• This is like winning an Oscar!… As if I would know! Speaking of acting, one of my movies was called True Lies. And that’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • True
  • Winning
  • Lies

• I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • May
  • Die

• I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Life
  • Music
  • Positive

• I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Thinking

• Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feels
  • Intuition
  • Direct

• A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • God
  • Long
  • Words

• Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Genius
  • Mediocrity
  • Consolation

• On the Agriculture Committee, I will be an ardent and strong champion for our farmers to ensure that they are treated fairly, particularly in regards to how their products are priced.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Strong
  • Champion

• I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.

  

  Eamonn Ceannt
  • May
  • Fighting
  • Enemy

• The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.

  

  Walter Russell Bowie
  • Sweet
  • Average
  • Mediocrity