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Helen Rowland Quotes

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Helen Rowland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1875 - 1950

Topics

Heart Imagination Woman Man Vanity

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

John Banville

Time Imagination Memory Create Real

When I was a kid, I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year. I refused to step out of the door because I thought something would happen. I had all these compulsive thoughts or whatever, and my head was really messed up.

Jens Lekman

Life Step Door Thoughts Thought Go

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

Megan Hilty

Actor Playing Well Who Like Least

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Look Economic Function Astrology

Most British tapas bars aren't bars at all. They're restaurants that specialise in tapas. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a bit different from the Spanish way of doing things, in which tapas is an adjunct to the drinks and the general vibe.

John Lanchester

Doing Wrong Nothing Way British

Security is a human problem.

John McAfee

Problem Security Human

Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'

Matt Smith

Police Doctor Think Feel Strengths

I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.

John Shelby Spong

Life Work God Myself Responsibility

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?

Roseanne Barr

Myself Think Weird Watch Just Roar

I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.

Mary Balogh

Best Job Walls I Am Writing Control

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

Jean de la Bruyere

Thought Late Said More Human Years

I have ten thousand memories of myself writing alone in basements, bizarre servant quarters, cemeteries, deserted fountains, the band van, and other awkward settings.

Josh Malerman

Memories Alone Myself Writing Band