John Jay Chapman Quotes

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

John Jay Chapman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 2, 1862 - 1933

Topics

ThinkingGoodnessContemplationOwn

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

Jennifer Garner

GoodGratefulParentHelpMatter

I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.

Shirley Henderson

TimeLookKnowPrettyHad

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

Tom Courtenay

StarsBusinessInterestingLongMore

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

LifeStruggleLongDark

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

Jonathan Cain

MusicHappyForwardYouDownKnow

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

Douglas Sirk

WorldPictureNowTheoryDifferent

When my mom and dad got married, they lived in south Boston, which is where the first six of my brothers were born. After that, they moved to Minnesota, which is where the other five of us were born. So there's 11 of us.

Denis McDonough

MomBornFirstBostonLivedUs

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

Dorothy Fields

FeelYouWriteNeedExpression

I was raised by my Depression-era grandma who taught me to use what you've got: Waste not, want not!

Christina Tosi

MeYouWantI Was RaisedGotWaste

When you grow up a Matthews, other Matthews are always telling you what you're doing wrong.

Clay Matthews III

GrowDoingYouWrongGrow UpAlways

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

Bradley Whitford

YouWantActorWillMoreWrite

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

InspirationalArtManExerciseKnows

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