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Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 1, 1897 - November 1, 1973

Topics

Change Mistakes Unhappy Choose Never

Performing for Dick Van Dyke once was fun.

Jerrod Carmichael

Fun Performing Once Van Dyke

The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

Anita Borg

Reputation Internet Place Being Does

It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.

Stellan Skarsgard

Work Think You Understand Hard Sell

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

Sol Wachtler

Woman Control Legal Body Right Own

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

Michael Stipe

Never Eat Broccoli Around Cameras

I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery clerk. I went to college part-time at California State Fresno, and then ended up finishing in two and a half years because I wanted to get on with things.

Joy Covey

Home School College High School High

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Jay Griffiths

Time Grace Timing Individual Social

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

Jon Hamm

Life Live Age Time Losing Parents

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.

Don Cornelius

Dance Show Hosting Almost Learned

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

Doyle Brunson

Game Hands Poker Percent Ninety

Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.

Donna Shalala

Dance Fun People Looking Alcohol

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.

Chris Van Allsburg

Children Art Me Writing Want Kids