Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Work
  • May
  • Song

• With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Future
  • Decide
  • Aspiration

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • People
  • Just
  • Everyone

• I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Determination

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Together
  • Freedom

• When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Help
  • Past
  • Community

• I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Time
  • School
  • Exercise

• Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Equality

• There is a favourite in every family; and, generally speaking, that favourite is the most troublesome member in it.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Family

• Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Time

• Currency means nothing if you still ain't free. Money breeds jealousy. Take the game from me; I hope for better days. Trouble comes naturally. Running from authorities. 'Til they capture me, and my aim is to spread more smiles than tears. Utilize lessons learned from my childhood years.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Money
  • Hope
  • Free

• Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Life
  • Long
  • Book

• Ken, the Tot of Destiny, had turned into the Marquis de Sade, and I in response had become a virago.

  

  Elaine Dundy
  • Destiny

• My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Happy

• With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

  

  David Hockney
  • War
  • Together
  • True

• Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • People
  • Religious

• The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Good
  • Man
  • Humor

• Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • World
  • Light
  • Danw

• PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Light
  • Poetry
  • Phosphorescence

• Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Light
  • Humor
  • Sunshine