Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes

Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

Charles Webster Hawthorne

• Color
• Humble
• Make
• Paint
• Vibrate

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Trust
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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Feet

• My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • She
  • Hope

• I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Best
  • See
  • Year

• Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Writing
  • Independent
  • Speaking

• The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Community
  • Building
  • Insurance

• As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Child

• Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

  

  Hafez
  • Light
  • Wine
  • Glass

• You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

  

  Pam Grier
  • You
  • Everything
  • Top

• I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Book
  • Think

• I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Dad

• In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Road

• 'Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • History
  • Today
  • Rest

• If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • True
  • Universe
  • Acceptance

• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Remember
  • Peace

• Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Work
  • Important
  • Funny

• It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Character
  • Rest
  • Care

• If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • People
  • Different
  • Color

• Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Color
  • Humble
  • Make