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Josiah Royce Quotes

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: November 20, 1855 - September 14, 1916

Topics

Live Unique Strive Whole Far Our

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

Matt de la Pena

People Me Think Talking Worth You

The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.

Learning Truth Truth Is Unhappy Hard

In 1965, I was 11 and in my last year at Junior school. I was living with my mum and older sister in a rented flat in south London - my parents had separated when I was five and got divorced a couple of years later, which was unusual at the time. My dad was working abroad, and I hadn't seen him for several years.

Time School Parents Sister Year Him

I've got children and it's still this one thing that I feel incredibly proud about, when my children are in the playground with their friends and they know about 'Doctor Who'. It's a great feeling. I can sit down with them and watch the new 'Doctor' with my kids.

Children Great Doctor Proud Friends

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.

People Me Criticism Say Understand

I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

Home Cell Phone Voice Phone Google

The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.

Work Comedy You Bad Rules Go

I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

Life Think Back Down Earth Airport

I'm very interested in architecture.

Architecture Interested Very

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

College Financial America Need Right

I'm an animal-rights person, actually. Big time.

Time Person Big Actually Big Time

Keeping with our family tradition of sending their children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of my interest in chemistry, I was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 11 years old, on the assumption that German was an important language for a prospective chemist to learn.

Mario J. Molina

Family Children School Language Old

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