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Charles Godfrey Leland Quotes

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1824 - 1903

Topics

Light Storm Clouds Wind Trees Bride

There is a terrorist threat to this country that remains, and I believe that counter-terrorism needs to be the cornerstone of our mission, our vast mission... and aviation security is something that we still have a fair amount of concerns about.

Jeh Johnson

Believe Mission Security Country

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Michael Connelly

Experience Writing Looking Think Up

It's really hard for a lot of men to have the woman accomplishing more than them.

Amy Schumer

Men Woman More Hard Than Really

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Amber Tamblyn

Work Business Luck You Acting Out

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

Trevor Paglen

Me Feel Everything Sense Make

Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

Joshua Foer

Memories Time Job Vacation Drive

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot

Good Government Morals Result Bad

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

Chloe Sevigny

Doing Been Lot Lately Kissing Sadly

People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.

Christine Quinn

Woman People Me Win Feel Tell

In the 1960s, my father chose to introduce Italian-style clothing into a world that was filled with boxy Brooks Brothers suits. So if you were dressing in his clothes in New York or California, you were breaking a rule. And my mother, Risha, who is still living, has always been an activist. I don't think my mom has met a cause she doesn't like.

Chris Meledandri

Father Mother New York Mom World

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

Peter Carey

Life Someone Earth Person Worst

I was raised by an empowered woman. I married an empowered woman.

Scooter Braun

Woman I Was Raised Empowered Raised