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Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: May 24, 1878 - October 5, 1969

Topics

Life Man Universe Mystery Personal

Most of our customers want something glamorous. They want to be looked at, but not for the wrong reasons.

Jenny Packham

Wrong Want Glamorous Something Most

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

Michael Bloomberg

Know Build Independent Way Something

My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Mother Age Time Fun Mom Having Fun

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'

Stephen Hunter

Funny Think American Comedy Year

Transgender casting is a kind of literalism. It is the same with racial casting. This means that you can now only play Othello if you are black. There is something quite tainted about it. It is a form of racism in itself.

Steven Berkoff

Racism Black You Play Now Kind

With albums like 'Rodeo,' 'Days Before Rodeo' and 'Owl Pharaoh,' I was really tuned into wanting to get people to understand my conscious and who I was mentally and who I am mentally.

Travis Scott

I Am People Owl Understand Days Get

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

Tomas Transtromer

Life Water Joy Sun Sister Ship

Australia is the same size as the U.S., but it's much smaller in terms of population. I've been working in the States off and on since the '80s, and the first time I played a lead here was in '91, I think.

Robert Taylor

Time Think Australia First Time Size

We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

Michael Stipe

Water Beach Ocean Swimming Miami

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

Mireille Mathieu

Moment You Go Stage Audience Out

I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.

Johnny Weir

Time Shoes I Am Ice You Too Much

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

Dr. John

Life Proud Name My Life Middle Been