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James Russell Lowell Quotes

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

James Russell Lowell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891

Topics

Light Candle World Flame Reputation

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

Day School Wait High School Grow

So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word.

Robert Krulwich

People Things Aware Word Many Posts

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

Book Negative Thought Feeling Race

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

Walk People Attention True Nothing

I'm a producer at heart.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

School Think Common Like I Think

In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Day New York You Be Nice New Nice

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.

Women You Wonder Train Movement Got

Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it's fair to say 'Watchmen' stands out for its rich entertainment, its darkness, and its lurid pleasures. Its vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate.

Darkness Colors Rich Say Fair Out

I have money in my bank account. I have my own apartment. I have friends. I still go through and experience depression. You don't have to be ashamed of it.

Depression Money Experience Friends

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

Krist Novoselic

Heart Follow Your Heart Follow Trend

All I can do with my music is try and be a light for people who are in a dark time.

Music Time Light People Dark I Can

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