Lillian Gish Quotes

What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

Lillian Gish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: entertainer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 14, 1893 - February 27, 1993

Topics

LifeYouLivingGiveGet

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Jennie Garth

PassionTeachKidsReadCouldDad

I kind of want everyone to think I'm a crazy person.

Megan Amram

CrazyThinkPersonWantKind

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Robert Quine

ExperienceEarlyPianoLessonsQuite

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Amos Bronson Alcott

SuccessSweetLongThroughStruggles

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

Stanley Hauerwas

ThinkNamePersonImperialismUnited

I always modeled myself on Ronaldinho. He was one of my favourites who I followed a lot - his magic made us want to imitate him and his football. Is my goal celebration a tribute to him? Yes, of course. I like him a lot.

Roberto Firmino

MyselfFootballMagicGoalWantHim

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.

Mary Lambert

HappinessTimeCultureBrokenHappy

Above all, ignore the audience.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

IgnoreAudienceAbove

Physical labor, manual labor - if you can stay close to those folks, there's always plenty to write about, 'cause their issues are real issues.

Jason Isbell

YouLaborWriteRealAlwaysStay

I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

Donovan Bailey

AchievementGoldWinningSayAtlanta

So much of Judaism is about suffering, survival, and pathos.

Bryan Fogel

SufferingSurvivalJudaismMuch

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Plautus

UselessWellHeMeansDoesUnless

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