Catherine Helen Spence Quotes

I look back to a happy childhood.

Catherine Helen Spence

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: australian
  • Birth: October 31, 1825 - April 3, 1910

Topics

ChildhoodHappyLookBack

The inbox is always open in my brain, and anyone can get in any time and access me. Turning it off is taking back control. I decide who gets in. It's about emotional privacy, having a self.

Jill Soloway

TimeMeBrainControlSelfPrivacy

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

John Berger

ConfidenceHopeDarknessFlameDark

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

Andrew Taylor Still

DesireNeverCatWalksLightly

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

Melissa Etheridge

ThinkDifferencesDoneBelievingUs

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Robert Plant

MusicPersonSinglePlanetWalks

We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.

Amy Purdy

ChallengesObstaclesYouRoadblocks

My son spends as much time with his dad as he does with me.

Solange Knowles

SonTimeMeHeMuchHis

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Robin Marantz Henig

WorkAloneWorldModernCaution

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Michelangelo Antonioni

StructureRhythmOwnScene

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

Judd Nelson

SchoolNew YorkCityActingNewTwo

I never thought I could write fiction.

Jonathan Galassi

ThoughtNeverWriteFictionCould

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Donna Tartt

RainWaterI AmDetailWritingLeaf

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