Edith Pattou Quotes

A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it.

Edith Pattou

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• Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Action
  • Conversation

• The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Cool

• I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Done
  • Wife
  • Quality

• I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Proud
  • Sexuality

• What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Proud
  • Now
  • Coaching

• How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

  

  Samuel Johnson

• I'm gonna tell you something right now, Indian people in the United States are the hardest working people I've ever seen, and that's coming from a Mexican, okay?

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Mexican

• Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hope
  • Mercy

• The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life - however much we deny or ignore it - that for ever remains.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Wisdom

• The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said.

  

  Edward Hirsch

• Com'è in proverbio, ognun corre a far legnaAll'arbore che 'l vento in terra getta.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I definitely want to go against the grain - break those rules and create clothing that is fun for women and shows their personality and just enjoy wearing it and being fashion-forward.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet

• Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • American
  • Retirement

• Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Soul

• I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Lazy

• In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• I love that topic, the whole relationship thing, and I think that's why I love all this stuff, the Jane Austen stuff.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Why
  • Relationship

• To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Time
  • Eyes
  • Profound

• I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Hip Hop

• Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.

  

  Alex Lemon
  • Living
  • Ecstasy
  • Fragility

• A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it.

  

  Edith Pattou
  • Forest
  • Needle
  • Smelled