Elsa Maxwell Quotes

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

Elsa Maxwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 24, 1883 - November 1, 1963

Topics

SocietyGivingTalkingYouNothing

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

Joe Pantoliano

MeLivingRoleProjectsHelped

Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important.

Jim Barksdale

FunPeopleBuildingThinkEmployees

Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.

Jerry Only

BackEverythingOutComingBuyYour

Writing 'The Noonday Demon' turned me into a professional depressive, which is a weird thing to be. A class at the university I attended assigns the book and invited me to be a guest lecturer.

Andrew Solomon

MeWritingBookWeirdProfessional

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

Robert Benchley

WomanManStepFeelingWithoutUp

I'm not mad when people talk bad about me; that's the way it is.

Miguel Cabrera

PeopleMeBadMadWayTalk

Sometimes if you do a multi-camera comedy, often there's rules, like, 'We've got to have three main laughs per page.'

Lucy Davis

ComedyYouRulesSometimesThree

Frankly, a lot of candidates have no problem being sold to the highest bidder if it means they will win.

Jason Kander

WinProblemWillBeingMeansSold

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

Jon Corzine

FailurePowerCongressNowOverLow

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

Chris Cornell

WorkMyselfSingingGuitarYouRock

I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.

Chris Gethard

CollegeGraduationQuitDrinking

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.

Christopher Alexander

LifeCommunityPracticeCreateAdapt

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