Abraham Cahan Quotes

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Abraham Cahan

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• When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Forgotten

• The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Why
  • True
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• I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Judge
  • Songs
  • Boss

• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Old
  • Fools
  • Behind

• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Writing
  • Planning

• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Challenge
  • Childhood
  • Husband

• I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Life
  • Interesting
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• With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sadness

• The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Reality

• You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Luck

• I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Alone

• By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

  

  O. Henry
  • King
  • Rights
  • New Deal

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Goals
  • Based
  • Objectives

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• A lot of what acting is paying attention.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Attention
  • Acting
  • Lot

• Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Prejudice

• In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

  

  Craig Kilborn
  • World
  • Bad
  • Red

• Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.

  

  George Fox
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • God
  • Man
  • Day