Eleanor Porter Quotes
I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.
Eleanor Porter
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
Indira Gandhi
I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
Bear Grylls
I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
Abigail Breslin
My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
Carla Hall
Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
Zach Galifianakis
I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
Wendy Davis
One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
Natalie Massenet
I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson
I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
Aaron Neville
By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
Camilla Belle
When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
Bebe Neuwirth
I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.
Alan Vega
You know, search has never been a strong suit of Facebook.
Jennifer 8. Lee
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bayard Rustin
My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
Victor Mitchell
The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'
Matthew McConaughey
I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.
Eleanor Porter
