Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.

John Fusco

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

John Milton

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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Rupert Penry-Jones

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Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies.

Mona Eltahawy

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Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.

Loretta Lynch

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As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them - and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past.

Douglas Rushkoff

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Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.

Brittany Howard

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Making music has saved my life.

Alice Ripley

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I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

Sean Young

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I think back to having had the good fortune of being at Warner Bros. when we were doing 'Lois & Clark.' The chemistry between Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher was really wonderful.

Nina Tassler

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