Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Gift

• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Power
  • Need
  • Slavery

• I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Long
  • Play

• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Number
  • Mechanical

• I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Music
  • Right
  • Loving

• A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Day
  • Writer
  • Plant

• I have always been an active part of my community.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Community
  • Always
  • Active

• I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Goals

• We have kids this year that we want to watch closely.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Kids
  • Year
  • Watching

• You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Age
  • Actor
  • Insecurity

• If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Great
  • Done
  • Fame

• Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird beam from the Moth Signal summoned the Gangland Guardian to the aid of desperate criminals ?And who can forget the eerie Moth Cave where new and startling implements of crime were produced by this evil genius !

  

  Bob Kane
  • Remember
  • Evil
  • Weird

• There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

  

  Robert Frost
  • God
  • Men
  • Fear

• There was never a conspiracy, never a tremendous fear. This is a society which is now in its third generation of severe political repression, so that children in North Korea have several hours of political education a day. Their parents did, and their grandparents did.

  

  Ashton Carter
  • Conspiracy
  • Repression
  • North Korea

• We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.

  

  Karim Rashid
  • Control
  • Point
  • Machine

• The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Argument
  • Silent
  • Thunder