Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882

Topics

StrengthControlSnakeWishYou

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Jean Racine

KnowNothingKnowingBringPass

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

Steve Yzerman

MomentIceYouFastToo MuchNever

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

Tom Stoppard

MusicWritingProcessYouKindHead

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Moliere

I AmHumanSameMayOhAm

Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.

Liz Murray

DayEyeBlindBirthSheFirst

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

Juan Williams

HistoryCollegeLoseElectionThree

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

Jon Favreau

FreedomCourageCreativeFunPeople

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.

David Simon

SuccessHopeGreatVoiceChoiceOut

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

Chip Conley

GoodBusinessBackPrinciplesUp

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

Ciara

MyselfThinkArtistGrowingWant

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Boyd Holbrook

WorkWantKindsDirectorsFilms

I don't do a lot of rehearsal. I don't like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don't really rehearse.

Susanne Bier

ChangeMorningDayGoOverShooting

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