Deborah Harkness Quotes

People think about history as all grand gestures or significant moments, but the most valuable lesson we can learn is the enduring legacy of the small, meaningful things in life.

Deborah Harkness

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LifeHistoryPeopleLegacySmall

I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

Jessica Biel

FunnyRomanticPeopleComedyNever

I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?

Jennifer Egan

LifeChildhoodFeelKindWhyWay

People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.

Jenna Bush

FatherTimeEffortPeopleMeProud

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Maya Angelou

LifePeaceMindPenCreateActor

I refuse to lie to children.

Maurice Sendak

ChildrenLieRefuse

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

Michael Franti

LifeBrotherSisterWorthMoreThan

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce

GoodManSnakePigEatWholesome

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

Stan Musial

HomeSpeedYouSwingSizeBig

Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

Steven Stucky

MusicMeHairFeelRacingEmotional

Most people catch them breaching from the surface when they're shooting out of the water. I have them breaching from underwater in a 16-time sequence, a shark leaving the water and then reentering the water.

Michael Muller

WaterPeopleLeavingSharkShooting

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

Louis C. K.

LaughCheapThing

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Josef Albers

ArtPeopleMeDoingPhilosophySee

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