Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • World
  • Want
  • Better

• I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • You
  • Bank

• When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • You
  • Always
  • Try

• Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • American
  • Want
  • Doing

• I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Pride

• The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • You
  • Push
  • Nurturing

• I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Up
  • Want
  • Hard

• I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Anger

• I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Want
  • Look

• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Human

• You can't get emotional about your work.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • You
  • Emotional

• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Think
  • You
  • Meet

• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • You
  • Feeling

• Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Movie
  • You
  • Criticism

• Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Good
  • Want
  • Nice

• When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • You
  • Rest
  • Blues

• People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• “Hey, it’s a bird!” a voice said from the darkness just as Patricia reached the ground. “Come here, bird. I only want to bite you.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Want
  • Bird
  • Come

• Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Food
  • City

• When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

  

  Iman
  • Black
  • Down
  • Modeling

• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Family
  • Success

• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • You
  • Old