Henry Adams Quotes

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918

Topics

PoliticsFactsIgnoringPractical

Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better.

Melissa McCarthy

PeopleFaceBetterInterestingKnow

The day before I work, I don't like to even look at the script and let whatever happens happen on the set. But I do prepare a lot. I'm a big believer in that.

Jeffrey Tambor

WorkDayLookPrepareWhateverBig

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Sophocles

ManPoorPoor ManEvenHonors

As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.

Rodney Crowell

StyleWillPoetNaturalJustHad

Just to see if I liked vlogging, I uploaded a video of my sister and I cleaning up a river in a canoe for Earth Day. The sound was horrible, and the quality was horrible... But you have to blog what's interesting to you and not care what anyone thinks.

Rosanna Pansino

QualityDayRiverSisterCareYou

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Russell Simmons

OpportunityIgnoranceFightPeople

I am 26 and, and I don't recover as fast as I have in the past.

Michael Phelps

PastI AmFastIn The PastRecover

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

Joy Fielding

JoyBookReadingYouKnowBooks

Oh, I'm kooky.

Courteney Cox

Oh

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

Claire Danes

WorkMessWouldRatherThan

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle

LifeImaginationEffortGoStrange

In archetypes, there is the Nurturer and the Warrior. Different kinds of strengths that, ideally, complement each other and are equally respected.

Anne Bishop

WarriorStrengthsKindsDifferent

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