Ellen Glasgow Quotes

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Ellen Glasgow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945

Topics

LifeSuccessIndependenceFinancial

You don't always want to go do the same thing day after day because your body, as well as your mind, is not going to be as stimulated. You're not going to want to work as hard or be as motivated.

Anna Kaiser

WorkDayMindYouBodyYour Body

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

Michael Caine

KnowledgeForwardEnoughYouLook

I don't think I'm boring.

Tony Parker

ThinkBoring

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

Juan Enriquez

ControlThinkEvolutionOverGoing

I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.

Jonathan Groff

SpringThreeOverYearsAwakening

I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs through the rehearsal processes.

Johnny Flynn

WritingEarlyYoungActorFirst

Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.

Chevy Chase

PeopleReachIdiotYouLookBack

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Bryan Procter

LoveWomanTongueEarthNoiseWhich

I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'

Brian Posehn

AngerManagementDoingNewNowLast

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Peter Drucker

InnovationWealthCreateNewAct

It's a big criticism of Greenaway films that they are far too interested in formalism and not enough interested in notions of emotional content. It's a criticism I can fully understand from a public that has been brought up by Hollywood movies that demand intense emotional rapport.

Peter Greenaway

CriticismEnoughI CanUnderstandUp

People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.

Tim Scott

PeopleMeHelpYouFindStop

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