James Russell Lowell Quotes

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

James Russell Lowell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ManThinkPlanHimMakeSurest

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

Jerry Lewis

GovernmentDoingYouKnowOldWell

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

WorkEconomicsEconomistsEmployment

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.

Robert Gottlieb

BookYouSurrenderMoreSeemsGoing

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

Story Musgrave

LifeResponsibilityPeopleThinkYou

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

Mike Lowry

InfluenceYouPlaySayRockMean

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

Douglas Wilson

ManThinkPlanetSexiestVery

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.

Boomer Esiason

CommunityThankfulChildBelieve

You shouldn't be trying to create a system where no bank fails, but you should be creating one that catches a bank and allows it to fail without impacting the financial markets.

Bob Diamond

FinancialTryingYouCreateCreating

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Woody Allen

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I made a promise to Michael Brown's parents that I would do everything to bring all of the resources of the federal government to this investigation so that it is transparent; so that it is a viable investigation, and we get to the truth.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

TruthGovernmentParentsResources

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Susan Sontag

FailureWrongJudgmentCriticCourse

I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

Seth MacFarlane

PeopleEndEasyYouCareerPerson

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