Margaret Cavendish Quotes

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Margaret Cavendish

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• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Truth

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Happiness

• I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

  

  Ovid
  • Evil
  • All Things
  • Corrupt

• My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Trainer

• I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Me

• Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Poet
  • Isolation

• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• Courtroom dramas can be boring.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Boring
  • Dramas
  • Courtroom

• The Granite State needs a senator who knows that New Hampshire comes first - and leads like it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Like
  • First
  • New

• The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Alive

• Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

  

  Gail Collins
  • World
  • Remember
  • History

• The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Issues
  • Vote
  • Only

• I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• I personally have not spoken to Marvel and have no plans to do a movie in the immediate future because, number one, I'm tied up with 'Somnia,' which is a fantastic place to be. It's exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Future

• Keep death and exile daily before thine eyes, with all else that men deem terrible, but more especially Death. Then wilt thou never think a mean thought, nor covet anything beyond measure. (161).

  

  Epictetus
  • Men
  • Death
  • Eyes

• Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Business
  • War

• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Men
  • Joy

• I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

  

  Margaret Cavendish