Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
-
You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
-
As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
-
In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
-
I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
-
What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
-
I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
-
Facebook is the social graph with the organizing principle around your friends and your social life. LinkedIn is the professional graph, organized around you, your job, your industry, your title and your function. At Chegg, we are building a student graph centered around you, as a student.
-
The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
-
I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
-
In 2007, my life changed forever. I signed on 'Tashan,' a full-on glamorous masala movie, with two of the hottest and fittest actors around: Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. And me, rising out of the sea like a Bond girl, wearing nothing but a green bikini. I had nightmares of how my love handles would be on display for the whole world to see.
-
I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.
-
Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!
-
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
-
...life is lonely, life is empty. Love isn't everything. A dear true friend is more than love-the serge outlasts the silk.
-
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
-
When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.
-
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-
The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.
-
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,"I whisper. She smiles: "We'll shape it withour souls."Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.
-
Don't labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives.
-
My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.
-
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.
