George Washington Cable Quotes

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

George Washington Cable

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 12, 1844 - January 31, 1925

Topics

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Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

Max von Laue

AcceptanceWaveMeetTheoryComplete

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter

RelationshipPeopleBlackThinkSame

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Robert Fripp

LanguagePossibleRepresentationFact

Nothing I do will ever compare with 'Breaking Bad.'

RJ Mitte

BadNothingWillBreakingCompare

As a CEO, I had significant exposure to private equity, enough that I had in no way bought into the media's caricature: rapacious privateers who destroy companies.

Ron Williams

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I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.

Mary Szybist

ExperienceFindTurnRatherThan

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

Martin O'Malley

ThinkPovertyPartyPersonMore

I'm very happy to be directing though. It's a challenge, and it's a lot of fun for me to be on set.

Jason Priestley

ChallengeFunHappyMeDirecting

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

Diane Cilento

WorkTimeYouHardAlwaysUp

Cable is a niche business. If you can own a niche, that can be a very strong business.

David Zaslav

BusinessStrongYouOwnNicheVery

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.

Christopher Walken

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And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.

Craig Brewer

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