William Ellery Channing Quotes

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

William Ellery Channing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 7, 1780 - October 2, 1842

Topics

LifeEndThanHigherAmused

I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

Jenny Slate

FeelComfortableAggressiveAlways

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

John Ortberg

StandBetterYouLovingPersonGot

Any time I try to play anything that doesn't come natural, I'm just plain bad.

Andy Griffith

TimeBadPlayTryAnythingNatural

What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

Michael Haneke

I AmMeStupidTreatSeriouslyMore

The days are long. I'm not complaining, but it's a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.

John Ross Bowie

WorkComedyDoingLongComplaining

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.

Stanley Kubrick

ExperienceWritingViewPhotography

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

Russell Brand

MeUpOwnHerOtherReally

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

Joshua Foer

LifeLiveDailyTimeDayShort

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

Jared Kushner

LoveFatherIdentityDifferent

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

Jon Tester

WorkGovernmentMeBetterShady

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Bob Graham

NeedDirectorPositionCIAMake

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

Philip Pullman

TimeCuriousParentsGrowing UpYou

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