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Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1850 - October 30, 1919

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Ship Go Sails Way Same Winds

The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.

Animal Plant More Eat Evidence Who

You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

Life God People My Life Worry You

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Life Feel Own Making Characters Lot

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

Sad Angry People Laugh Want Real

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

Character Great Imagination Writing

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

People Cool Feel Want Something

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

People Me Think Country Sometimes

You can't walk away from your responsibilities and commitments.

Walk You Away Your Responsibilities

Most of what I knew of George VI was from watching 'The King's Speech!'

King Speech Watching Knew Most

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

Early Cash Were Written Strapped

We have fans that come up all the time and say, 'This song helped me through this tough time in my life' or whatever. The music helps us through it, too.

Johnny Van Zant

Life Music Time Me Song Tough

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

Nature Rebel Etiquette General Much

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