Ellen Buckingham Mathews Quotes
It is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.Ellen Buckingham Mathews
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
Orson Pratt -
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde -
Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
Mandy Bujold -
In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
G. Willow Wilson -
A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.
P. J. O'Rourke
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
Paolo Sorrentino -
There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.
Caitriona Balfe -
I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.
Salma Hayek -
I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.
Angelina Jolie -
If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.
Ian Bogost
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Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."
Marianne Williamson -
The warrior's gift is to willingly storm Hell that Heaven may remain unstained.
Eva Pigford -
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
Aristotle -
I deserved a 'T'. I was trying to get our guys (motivated). It was a good call.
Rick Pitino -
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau -
After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
Walter Dean Myers
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
Candace Bushnell -
Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
David Bowie -
It is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.
Ellen Buckingham Mathews