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George Jean Nathan Quotes

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

George Jean Nathan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 14, 1882 - April 8, 1958

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Love Woman Man Feel True Deepest

I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds to. I know that I could, but it feels very unnatural for me to strip my prose like that, in part because place is so important to me.

Jesmyn Ward

Me Voice Place Know Important Minds

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

John Cage

Nature Purpose Her Highest Operation

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

Jeremy Renner

Life Doing Active Same Anything Got

At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not.

John Darnielle

Mountain School High School Guitar

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

Anant Agarwal

Learning Writing Energy Think Why

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

Maya Rudolph

Mother Grow Loss Never Grow Up Up

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

Meg Rosoff

Morning Late Up Fields Horses Every

Cage always wanted to know what my structure was, if I had one. I often did have some sense of the time structure. Then he'd make a different one for the music.

Merce Cunningham

Music Time Know Structure Cage He

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

Jason Kidd

Trying Things Squeeze Sense Court

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

Jann Wenner

People Clean Up Clean Up Level Just

The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.

Chiang Kai-shek

Nature Time Sun World Thought

The funny thing is that, for some reason, people think when you're pregnant, you have to start wearing maternity wear and wear flats and look Mom-ish. I don't know exactly what people expect of people who are pregnant, but there's definitely a lot of moms out there that look super fabulous all the time, and I guess that's my inspiration.

Coco Rocha

Funny Time People Start Think Look