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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Elizabeth Bowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973

Topics

Experience Interesting Repeat Begins

I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.

Positive Walk Year Know Lucky Two

A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.

Happiness Hope Great Time Someone

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

Writing Think Write Just Publishing

The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

Power Me Ghost Surprised Stories

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

Work Finance Data Find Class See

Mum told me stories about her time in the Women's Royal Navy, and about her dad, who had died before I was born - he'd been sent to Australia as a child, then joined the Australian Army in the First World War and fought at Gallipoli.

Women Time War Child Me World

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

Mary Barnett Gilson

Men Free Minds Must Means Few

I sort of was inspired by 'Friday Night Lights,' where it was a very different show, but similar in that they were both large ensemble dramas where you had many stories going on at once. I wanted to do a show that shared that element, and that's really why I wanted to develop 'Parenthood' as a series.

Night Friday You Lights Why Going

In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

Kindness Heart Compassion Wise Mind

If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.

Johnny Van Zant

Music Wind You Old Up Fan

No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about the decisions that Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower made during the most dangerous decades in American and world history. But we know now that they did what was right, and we honor them for it.

History People World Honor American

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

Life Children Myself Day Me Think

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