Gene Stratton-Porter Quotes

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

Gene Stratton-Porter

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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Why
  • Death

• I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Media

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Beginning
  • Need
  • Happen

• Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • She
  • True
  • Said

• I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Career
  • City
  • Now

• I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Action

• One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.

  

  Kajol
  • Reality
  • Dance
  • Judge

• We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Space
  • Needs
  • Nation

• I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Together
  • Help

• So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Long
  • Culture
  • Be Careful

• If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Great
  • Country
  • Coaching

• Composed for renown am I, a verse heard on the stone-doored isle in the four-quartered fort. Tranquillity and obscurity mingled shiny wine their drink before their retinue. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went upon the main, Save for seven none came up from Castle Rigor.

  

  Taliesin
  • Up
  • Wine

• That day in Moscow, it will all come true, when, for the last time, I take my leave, And hasten to the heights that I have longed for, Leaving my shadow still to be with you.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Time
  • True
  • Leaving

• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt

• When I joined the Mumfords I made a commitment to them so they'll always come first. But I'm a bit of a workaholic and Communion helps me get a grip on dealing with my life.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Life
  • Commitment

• That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Circumstances
  • Satisfaction
  • Injustice

• I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Guy

• Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Country
  • Judge
  • Born

• How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

  

  Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Believe
  • Worst
  • Majority