Dawn Powell Quotes

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

Dawn Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 28, 1896 - November 14, 1965

Topics

BookPersonOverBelongWhereOff

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

Menander

IntelligenceDirectionBetterClever

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

GoodHumbleWaterExcellenceSociety

I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

Stacy Schiff

EducationGoodGreatMyselfBook

As I like to say, if you want to pay attention to a horse race, put two dollars on a horse, and you'll pay enormous attention to all 11 horses in the race.

Tom Steyer

HorseAttentionYouSayWantRace

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

Robin Gibb

BackRockOperaLikeBeats

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Mary Ritter Beard

WorldRealityEnjoyWillCritics

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

Michel Patini

FootballMeGameDramaJust

Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.

Jonas Gahr Store

CourageIdeasFaceKeyConvictions

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Thomas Sankara

FutureTodayClarityYesterdayWant

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

Norman Borlaug

HumbleFoodI AmWarLosingTeam

Our two nations share the important values of democracy and freedom and liberty. My visit to the United States has indeed reinforced this mutual conviction and determination to ensure that our two peoples cherish these values.

Mwai Kibaki

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If LGBT people can identify with our story, if they think, 'The Golden Lovers are my team,' I'm good with that.

Kenny Omega

GoodPeopleTeamStoryThinkGolden

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