Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.

Florence Scovel Shinn

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• God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Action

• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
  • Run
  • Been

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Energy
  • Player
  • Year

• Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.

  

  Barbara Johnson
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Better

• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Child
  • Losing
  • Horrible

• Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Revenge

• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • May
  • Growing
  • Die

• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • She
  • Mother
  • Man

• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

  Becky G
  • Real
  • Love
  • Artist

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • May
  • Think
  • Democracy

• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Learning

• Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Grew Up
  • Whites
  • Charles Dickens

• Every Tom, Dick and Harry in our movement has received his cash.

  

  Alan Young
  • Movement
  • Cash

• People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • People
  • Attention
  • Internet

• It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.

  

  Aja Brown
  • People

• I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life and I don't have to be. I always try to understand what would lead an individual to being that way, to being oblivious to the fact that he's somewhat insensitive and scared of commitment, and that psychological journey, and what traumas may have occurred in this person's childhood to bring him to that point.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Life
  • Real
  • Childhood

• Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • People
  • Life
  • Think