Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

Elbert Hubbard

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• Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Anxiety

• Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Cool
  • Baby
  • Loved

• I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Body

• I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Europeans
  • Italians

• They can say I have an opinion about something.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Opinion
  • Something
  • Say

• When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Art
  • Girl

• Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Work
  • City
  • Work Hard

• We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Time
  • Impossible
  • Little

• I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Actor

• And who would deny the intellect and will of girls? That would be questioning their full humanity. On the average, abstract and mere intellectual activity is not suitable for them; they want to understand reality completely, and they want to comprehend not merely with the intellect but also with the heart.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Humanity

• If you see yourself as God and then you come back from this state and somebody says, 'Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!' it catches you back into the model of 'I'm Sam who empties the garbage.' You can't maintain these new kinds of structures. It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Model

• Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Lies
  • Equality

• Science repulses the indefinite.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Science

• I drink a lot of juice and eat a lot of vegetables.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten

• Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Culture

• Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Work
  • Book
  • Pretty

• Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fashion

• Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

  

  Craig Johnston
  • Bad

• Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • House
  • Reading
  • Practice

• Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

  

  Elbert Hubbard