Elbert Hubbard Quotes

When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say 'Canary!' - he'll take offense.

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• I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Childhood
  • Acting
  • Pride

• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Me
  • California

• I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Happen

• We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Money
  • Home
  • Shopping

• Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Live
  • Science

• PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Company

• I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

  

  E. B. White
  • Thought
  • Cat
  • First Amendment

• I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Time
  • Business
  • Career

• No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Her

• If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know?

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Live
  • You
  • Know

• All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Important
  • Want
  • Yourself

• All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Changing

• I want to show audiences I can act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Act
  • I Can

• I will not support any game that doesn't express what I think is worthwhile.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Think
  • Game
  • Support

• Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Good
  • Art

• Trying to defeat an ideology by killing individuals is like trying to save a marriage with a blowjob. It might buy you some time, but in the end it'll just suck. 3.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Marriage

• My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Good
  • Health

• Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growth
  • Own

• Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

  

  Mark Mobius
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I was always telling myself I could handle a more complex role, I could handle something bigger and more interesting than the work I was doing. But I wasn't demanding that of myself. At a certain point, I realized it was never going to come my way unless I started taking more control of it. That's what I realized I had to do.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Control

• Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Synthesis
  • Antithesis

• My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

  

  Kristin Bauer van Straten
  • People
  • Teacher

• When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say 'Canary!' - he'll take offense.

  

  Elbert Hubbard