Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
Harold Ramis -
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
Aasif Mandvi -
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
M. J. Rose -
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
Vash Young -
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
Daniel Craig
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
Walter Kirn -
I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
Karl Pilkington -
When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
Dan Hill -
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
J. Edgar Hoover -
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
Beau Willimon
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People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
Madisen Beaty -
History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
Maluma -
I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
F. W. de Klerk -
If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.
Abraham Cowley -
The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
Benjamin Netanyahu
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But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one – because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'
Brad Meltzer -
You are part of my story, memory and scenery, thank you.
Kim Tae-hyung BTS -
English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
Ian Harding -
I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
Jesse Ventura -
To do panels where you get to interact with your fans, in a really intimate, awesome way, and to let them ask all of the questions, is fun to me and it shows them that you care about their opinions, their thoughts, and their passion for your project.
Zachary Levi -
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward