Emma Curtis Hopkins Quotes
You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing more miserable than to feel that by some mistake in life you have not amounted to what you might have, and that your misfortunes all hinge on that mistake.
Emma Curtis Hopkins
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
Pat Barker
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
Dalai Lama
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.
John Kricfalusi
He was the chief of all the horses; and when he snorted, it was a flash of lightning and his eyes were like the sunset star.
Black Elk
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
Samuel Freeman Miller
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
Socrates
My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.
Bob Gibson
You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing more miserable than to feel that by some mistake in life you have not amounted to what you might have, and that your misfortunes all hinge on that mistake.
Emma Curtis Hopkins
