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Ellen Swallow Richards Quotes

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 3, 1842 - March 30, 1911

Topics

Night Clothes Wrong Comfort Burden

When I wake up in the morning, I need the writing to go to. I begin there. And that's not an accident, I mean, that habit of getting up in the morning and going to my writing first thing.

John Edgar Wideman

Morning Habit Writing Wake Up Go Up

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.

John Coltrane

Music Heart Time Experience Think

I'm the king of brownie sundaes!

Matt Dallas

King

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Robert Collier

Opportunity Service Start You Look

In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to 'Pulp Fiction.'

Roger Avary

Good Small Impossible Think Hurt

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty.

Rudy Giuliani

Mistakes Communism World Socialism

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.

Mary Roach

You Know Kind Will Never Out

People throughout time have grieved, have fallen in love, have fallen out of love. We are sometimes petty and sometimes heroic, and we have been that way forever.

Monica Hesse

Love Time People Sometimes Way Out

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

Judith Martin

Technology People Think New Old Out

While the specifics of Russia's interference in the 2016 American election remain unclear, no one doubts that Moscow has built a robust technological arsenal for waging cyberattacks.

Jared Cohen

American Election Russia Doubts

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Power People Free Powerful Now Say

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Identity Uncomfortable Old Years