George Edward Woodberry Quotes

The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.

George Edward Woodberry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 12, 1855 - January 2, 1930

Topics

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I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.

Ann Nocenti

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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

John Updike

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If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.

Sissy Spacek

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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Sigmund Freud

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Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

Lisa Kudrow

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I can do better, and if that's consistently training even harder, then I'm going to do that.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Jose Rizal

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Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William Whitelaw

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I feel like I 'get' boys. I've always been a boy's girl. Boys are easy; they just break stuff.

Pink

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The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'

Susanna Kearsley

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Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

Mario Batali

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