Elinor Wylie Quotes

One man stands as free men stand As if his soul might be Brave, unbroken; see his hand Nailed to an oaken tree.

Elinor Wylie

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• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Job
  • Help
  • Guy

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Born

• X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Schedule
  • X Out

• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Language
  • Bible
  • Without

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Together
  • Weird
  • Knife

• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • People
  • High
  • Hair

• Words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Legend

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Said

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done. Brian Tracy

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Done
  • Want
  • Management

• The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.

  

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
  • King
  • Activity
  • Directions

• A prince, the moment he is crown'd,Inherits every virtue sound,As emblems of the sovereign power,Like other baubles in the Tower:Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,And so continues till he dies.

  

  Prince
  • Power
  • Wise
  • Prince

• Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Together

• Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Success
  • Community

• One man stands as free men stand As if his soul might be Brave, unbroken; see his hand Nailed to an oaken tree.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Free