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Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 15, 1881 - March 23, 1960

Topics

Life Age Day Man Important Two

The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

Love Father Relationship Memories

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

Creative I Am Fun Mind Me Details

Nobody wanted to help me get my start, not to mention it's tough being a female in a man's world of stand-up comedy. It's a very competitive world, and it was a challenge to find my own voice, stick to my guns.

Anjelah Johnson

Challenge Man Me World Start Voice

The world is a living image of God.

Tommaso Campanella

God World Living Image

As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.

Family Me Start Trying Said Try

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Inspirational Change Change The World

When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.

Technology Money People Think New

I worked with Jack Nitzsche for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and we'd booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that - with some Indian flutes and some drums.

Music Water Man Glasses Glass Nest

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Time Yourself Effort Succeed Face

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

Love Care Who Movie Directors

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Information More Kid Background

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

Antonio Damasio

Nature Technology Freedom Science

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