Amelia Barr Quotes

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Amelia Barr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 29, 1831 - March 10, 1919

Topics

LuckWorldGoRunNeverShe

I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.

Jenny Packham

ThinkDesignFeelYouHardRight

'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.

John Lithgow

ButterflyExperiencePlayQuestion

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

Andy Warhol

BlueDieWantJeansBlue Jeans

Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

Jeb Bush

PeopleYouSpiralAgainstAgree

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

Alton Brown

DinnerYouSoccerPlayDoneKid

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

PeopleFriendsEverydayGetClose

If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.

Julia Lipnitskaya

SlowYouFeelingComfortableToo

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

Jose Mourinho

WorkFootballThinkYouWaySee

The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

Dick Ebersol

WinningFinancialYouDoneBecome

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

Chuck Palahniuk

MyselfCultureFunStupidThink

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

Alison Gopnik

ScienceHistoryPastSchoolBaseball

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

Suze Orman

MoneyAdviceGivingYouWantWould

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