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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

Elizabeth Bowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Effort Better She Individual

Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

Law America Assumptions White Hardly

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Robert Rodriguez

World Rules Done My Own Everything

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Men Free Will Decide Ought Firmly

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Alphonso Jackson

People Mission Country Housing Low

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

Stokely Carmichael

Generation Run More Breath Out Our

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

Guitar Never Mellow Liked

I vigorously train in my jui jitsu and my wrestling, but my stand-up game gives me a huge advantage in defending take-downs.

Robert Whittaker

Me Game Train Wrestling Advantage

I experimented with fashion as it being more like art, allowing what I wore to express what I was feeling on the inside. Androgyny, rock culture, and grunge - they definitely had an effect on the things that made me feel cool and comfortable.

Art Culture Me Cool Fashion Feel

I met Kanye. I'm starstruck, man, but I stayed away from that guy. I didn't want him to go on a rant, go off on me. He did it at his wedding.

Man Me Wedding Go Want Him

A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.

Time Learn You Lesson Hard Most

I'm not a normal person with normal tastebuds, so I'll save you all from cringing/dissing on my late night flavour pairings, but I will say when I was a kid, with little to no access to anything but my mother's pantry, I'd dip everything in ranch dressing, Miracle Whip, katsup, barbecue sauce, honey, mustard, etc.

Mother Night You Honey Late Person

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

Sebastian Horsley

I Am Someone Looks Intellectual Say

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