Louisa May Alcott Quotes

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888

Topics

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I was a Knicks fan until the day I bought the Bulls.

Jerry Reinsdorf

DayFanBullsUntilBoughtKnicks

The biggest message I want to get out is that a lot of us live in a bubble, and we think things can't happen to us, but they do. When it does happen to you, take care of yourself, and then get up.

Jenifer Lewis

LiveYourselfThinkCareTake Care

Finding initial funds is the primary barrier most entrepreneurs face. Many people don't have three or six months' worth of savings to free themselves up to do months of unpaid legwork.

Andrew Yang

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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Andrew Johnson

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Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope.

Robert Kennedy

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Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.

Andy Serkis

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My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.

Steven Price

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I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

Rob Zombie

SomeoneYouNeverOrderThingsSeen

I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.

Michelle Pfeiffer

MyselfFocusI AmPaintingBetter

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

Mildred Dresselhaus

EducationSimpleMeThinkGrowUp

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

Jay Leno

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Mike Nichols got me my Equity card.

Jon Tenney

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