Ellen Glasgow Quotes

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Ellen Glasgow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945

Topics

HistoryExperienceSchoolBookYou

You want that - peers respecting what you're doing.

Jimmy Page

DoingYouWantPeersRespecting

Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

Jerry Greenfield

TimeQualityEnvironmentalThink

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.

John Berger

LettersIndividualStepsDancers

When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version.

Andrew Gower

GoodAloneFocusStupidProcessYou

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

Robert Harris

GoodWorldStoryTwoAlwaysTell

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

John Stuart Mill

PowerNameMassesOnlyInstincts

I am an addictive personality.

Trisha Goddard

PersonalityI AmAddictiveAm

For eight or 10 years, I got wrapped up in chasing records. Everything was a number. Didn't matter what I won, it was a number. Every horse I rode was a number.

Tony McCoy

HorseMatterYearsEverythingUp

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

Michael Pollan

FoodThinkKeyAmericanYouLook

Christian children should be taught at an early age that everything they receive is because of God's grace and love. They will grow up more appreciative and begin to understand that they, too, must have a relationship with Christ. Christian children should also be taught how to give.

Monica Johnson

LoveGodAgeRelationshipChildren

When you go to the jungle in South Africa, it's tropical versus the dry heat of Cape Town - it's hard to believe it's the same country.

Michael Landes

BelieveYouCountryJungleGoHeat

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

Mink Stole

FamilyExtraordinaryKidsTenEven

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