Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.Edwin Percy Whipple
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
Gavin Newsom -
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan -
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg -
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
Halle Berry -
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. Forster -
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. Murray
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
Katey Sagal -
During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
Edith Stein -
Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
Viggo Mortensen -
I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
Sadie Frost -
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
Nate Silver
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
Quentin Tarantino -
I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
Ice Cube -
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
Aaron Eckhart -
Google never knew how successful key words would be.
Yuri Milner -
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
Salman Rushdie -
We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
Nathan Myhrvold
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe -
I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.
Michael Azerrad -
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
Peter Ustinov -
Through the years we had a bunch of large range fires that would start in the county. This was about the only one that actually came into town.
J. M. Roberts -
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
Edwin Percy Whipple