Ernest Vincent Wright Quotes

By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

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• The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Up
  • Beginning
  • End

• I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Teach
  • Guitar
  • Smoke

• I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Like
  • Lot
  • Rehearsing

• Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Giving
  • Enough
  • Fortune

• Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Single

• Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Nature
  • Here
  • Delight

• You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Faith
  • Nothing

• Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Own

• The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Important
  • Friends

• As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Country
  • Power
  • Support

• We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • War
  • Society
  • Strong

• There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • You
  • Opportunity

• Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Simple
  • Trust
  • English

• I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movie
  • City
  • Weird

• The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Up
  • Important
  • Stop

• I support strongly the expansion of nuclear power because that is one of the key ways of getting electricity generated and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Power
  • Support
  • Electricity

• I wanted to write about the things that I love.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Things
  • Write

• Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Remember
  • Fire
  • I Know

• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
  • First
  • Kid
  • Generation

• Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
  • Music
  • Together
  • Dream

• I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Up
  • Question
  • Better

• The waves rolled in like blue metal tubes carrying an egg white of foam on their peaks, then broke in a thousand glittering splinters and came up to the street with an oh of wonder and fear from those watching.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Wonder
  • Watching
  • Egg

• By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

  

  Ernest Vincent Wright
  • Working
  • Watching
  • Condition