Alice Morse Earle Quotes

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Alice Morse Earle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 27, 1851 - February 16, 1911

Topics

FamilySufferingBibleOldDistress

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Jerry Buss

EarlyCareerWantedMathematician

More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.

Robert Reich

DayPeopleAmericaPovertyEvery Day

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

LifeYouLateNothingLineToo Late

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

Jean Dujardin

WorkFatherYourselfBrotherYou

What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is just difficult if you're an action character. I think they are about character, not about what it looks like.

Sigourney Weaver

CharacterScienceActionThinkYou

'The Secret Agent' remains the most brilliant novelistic study of terrorism as viewed from the blood-spattered outside. But 'Under Western Eyes' dares to leap inside - not only into the terrorist mind, but also into the troubled zone that divides West from East, 'the autocracy in mystic vestments.'

Tom Reiss

EyesMindTerrorismBrilliantLeap

Like any good RPG, 'Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning' is adept at digging its claws into that part of your brain that just loves accomplishing things.

Jason Schreier

GoodBrainThingsDiggingJustYour

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Jasper Johns

GoodYouArtistDesireEverything

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Jose Rizal

PeopleSensitiveThemDelicacy

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

Diane Lane

FeelEnoughAttentionImportantJust

Confess and be hanged.

Christopher Marlowe

ConfessHanged

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

Colin Quinn

ActorMoreBigSuperficialMuch

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