Marguerite Young Quotes

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

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• The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Discovery
  • Most

• I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • People
  • Life
  • Worry

• Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Trump
  • Daily

• I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Citizen
  • Ukraine

• I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Think
  • Me
  • Always

• Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Good
  • Man
  • Good Man

• I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Father
  • Education
  • Say

• The wise are above books.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Wise
  • Books
  • Above

• Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • New
  • Now
  • Fishing

• I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Work
  • Home
  • Free

• My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Good
  • Career
  • Parents

• I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Past
  • Education
  • Learning

• I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • Believe

• When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

  

  Carl Jung
  • People

• Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life

• Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Breathe

• He Steve Jobs showed me the boat he was working on … and talked about how he's looking forward to being on it, even though we both knew there was a good chance that wouldn't happen.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Good
  • Boat

• With impassive gaze, Michael, prince of warriors, measured the extent of the disaster, and his keen intelligence penetrated its causes. The armies of the living God had taken the offensive, but by one of those fatalities in war which disconcert the plans of the greatest captains, the enemy had also taken the offensive, and the effect was evident.

  

  Anatole France
  • God
  • War
  • Taken

• When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right.

  

  Steve Marriott Small Faces
  • Confidence
  • Manager
  • Concentrate

• I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pretty

• As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning.

  

  Jane Green
  • Remember
  • Sun
  • Summer

• A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Australia

• The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Work
  • Real
  • Truth

• The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

  

  Marguerite Young