James Russell Lowell Quotes

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

James Russell Lowell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ProgressThinkLessonSecuritySoon

I believe in the cause, and I believe in the people, and by supporting Music Rights Awareness, I very much hope - and believe - we can make a difference.

Max Martin

MusicHopePeopleBelieveAwareness

Attribution is power.

Jeff Rich

Power

When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.

Amor Towles

TimeCuriousMemoryMeGentleman

We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs.

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

CountryAcceptWillSingleSoldier

My family and I live in a wing of a Georgian mansion in East Sussex, which was built in the 1780s and fell into disrepair. It was rescued in the Seventies and carved into six terrace houses.

Simon Toyne

FamilyLiveSeventiesBuiltHouses

When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me.

Romario

GoodMeCoolEasyThingsReally

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.

Roy Lichtenstein

PaintingSeriouslyBedroomPaintGet

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

Martin Rees

FocusProblemsPictureLoseSight

I was so shocked by how many people watched 'Lois and Clark.'

Michael Landes

PeopleShockedHowManyWatched

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

Milana Vayntrub

PastThinkForgetRefugeeHereLot

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?

Loretta Young

ThinkHurtJudgeLongYouWant

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

Dennis Muren

MyselfYouWayYesUsedShots

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