Deborah Sampson Quotes

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

Deborah Sampson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 17, 1760 - April 29, 1827

Topics

LadyDeserveMistressMayWholeOur

Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.

John Burnside

PeopleHelpInformationWillRight

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

John Updike

ManYoungYoung ManBringPoemOff

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

Amber Valletta

ThinkSayThingsI ThinkGratuitous

I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

Sue Monk Kidd

WomenHistoryNew YorkCityDinner

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

Joshua Sasse

CharacterYouFindEmotionsTryUse

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

Dick Dale

MeLovedUncleSoundAlwaysGut

Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.

David Wenham

ListeningPerformanceSayingKeyYou

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

Dean Smith

ThinkingSayMeanAlways

I should hurt a lot more people than I do. I'd like to hurt someone on every play.

Brian Bosworth

PeopleHurtSomeonePlayMoreLike

When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front of us are often the hardest to see: the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.

Apollo Robbins

DayLookingThinkYouLookSee

I find Tom Hardy very hot. About Bollywood actors, I dont think like that, as I know them.

Anushka Sharma

ThinkFindKnowHotLikeVery

When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.

Rick Perlstein

DeterminationAmericanIgnoreFirst

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