Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.
Quotes to Explore
-
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
-
I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
-
Conformity is dangerous.
-
Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
-
Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
-
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
-
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
-
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
-
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
-
The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
-
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
-
Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
-
I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
-
I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
-
When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
-
I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
-
Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
-
There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
-
It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
-
I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
-
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
-
Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.
-
I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.
-
Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.
