William Dean Howells Quotes

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

William Dean Howells

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920

Topics

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If I had taken 'Gilligan's Island,' I would never have gotten 'Coach' because I would have been established as Gilligan.

Jerry Van Dyke

IslandNeverCoachBecauseBeenHad

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Anatole France

BoredomHumanityDespairWithout

My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.

John Lanchester

BurgerChickenSpicyOrderStill

The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.

Ann Cotton

EducationChangeJusticeBridgeBack

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

John W. Thompson

TechnologyProcessBehaviorProblem

As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.

John Wesley

GodHeartServiceSoulEyeBetter

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.

Sue Townsend

GoodAgeWorldFreeThinkYou

I guess my first professional experience was when my church choir director told my mother that I had a gift with my voice and said that I should think about auditioning, at 11 years old, for the chorus of our regional opera company.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

Simon Cowell

PoliticsPeopleAlwaysHated

I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.

Tory Burch

GreatI AmPriceAlwaysPointAm

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

Roberta Williams

AdventureGameBelieveDieNever

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.

Rupert Murdoch

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